This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2005-2015, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in...

Problem Definition: Online short-term house rental platforms, which traditionally matched individual owners with individual customers (P2P), has recently experienced an influx of corporate players on the supply side controlling multiple assets. Our goal is to understand the implications of this...

In Part 1 ("Divergent Markets") of this three-part series, we document that the recent divergence in inventories of new and existing homes seems to reflect a scarcity of lower- and middle-tier homes. We now examine one potential factor contributing to this shortage: rental demand

Housing goes beyond mere shelter to include the facilities and other things in the environment that makes living comfortable for man, hence Olujimi opine that for housing to produce these impacts, it must be adequately provided with functional infrastructure. The concern of most Nigerian cities...