Affordable housing policy in the developed world has been undergoing a systematic commodification for several decades … rational behavior, even as it simultaneously staunches the supply of new housing and drives up prices for non-homeowners. As … for commodified housing, asset-based welfare, and the intractable political problem of NIMBYism. …

exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up … 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing … construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are …