their attitudes towards disorder, collective efficacy and social control. Results indicate significant differences between …Housing policies often promote homeownership in order to stabilise a given urban neighbourhood, assuming that … data from a representative survey in a deprived neighbourhood in Cologne, Germany. We asked both owners and renters about …

We estimate the social benefits of homeownership using an exogenous instrument based on randomly assigned treatment … status from a field experiment that subsidized saving for home purchase for low-income renters through Individual Development … individual characteristics leading to homeownership and traits leading to provision of social capital or local amenities …