Supply subsidies to owners of rental housing construction are typically aimed at increasing the overall size of the … housing stock or at guaranteeing affordable housing for low-income households. This paper studies whether and how much the … tenants of the social housing units benefit from this subsidy. We use on free market rental units and subsidized rental units …

-family housing in Germany. Construction activity in local housing markets (measured by new housing permits related to the local … housing stock) is modeled as a function of local home prices and new housing development costs, with the latter including …

I estimate the impact of market-rate new housing supply on the local rent distribution. As an exogenous shifter of new … housing supply, I exploit local weather shocks during the construction phase that lead to temporary delays in housing … completions at the municipal level. Adding one new housing unit to the stock for every 100 rental housing units offered on the …

housing in the city center was predominantly rental, prospective owner-occupiers needed to move to the city periphery. We are …