>g), taxation policies, or “great levelers,” like catastrophes. This paper argues that housing policy, in particular rent control …, is a neglected explanatory factor in understanding overall inequality. We hypothesize that rent control could decrease … tenants. Using original long-run data for up to 16 countries (1900-2016), we show that rent controls lowered wealth …

Rent-control advocates argue that its strongest feature is offering tenants strong protections from economic … displacement. Nonetheless, rent control may have negative effects on tenants, as previous research has shown that these tenants … is no longer optimal. I study what happens to tenants when they are displaced from their rent-controlled apartments by …