This paper explores determinants of manufactured housing park (MHP) plot rents in North Carolina, with particular focus on the distinction among urban, rural, and periurban and small town parks, and on the possible role played by zoning restrictiveness. Little is known about how MHP rents are...

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set...

This thesis consists of three independent chapters which all revolve around the investment decisions of households on the housing market. Although the chapters vary in method and subject, they all emphasize the distributional consequences of a policy or business cycle uctuation.