The (re-)introduction of rent regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or supply rationing is back on … the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many global cities. While rent control as social policy promises … on both rent regulation and housing construction for 16 developed countries (1910-2017) and 44 developing countries since …

units due to rent control in New York City. This methodology involves comparing the relative consumption of different … demographic groups within the rent controlled area with the relative levels of consumption in a free market area. Our best … estimate of the costs of rent control in New York due to the misallocation of rental apartments is 200 dollars per apartment …

units due to rent control in New York City. This methodology involves comparing the relative consumption of different … demographic groups within the rent controlled area with the relative levels of consumption in a free market area. Our best … estimate of the costs of rent control in New York due to the misallocation of rental apartments is 200 dollars per apartment …

Disequilibrium in the housing market can be detected by comparing the actual price-rent ratio with its equilibrium … presence of omitted variables. Applying this method to a data set consisting of 730,000 individual price and rent transactions … we find that quality adjusting significantly reduces the actual price-rent ratio. We then insert these quality adjusted …