Published: 2019 | Kriti Ramakrishnan, Mark Treskon, and Solomon Greene | Urban League Abstract As real wages stagnate, racial disparities grow, and housing prices soar in cities across the US, local governments are increasingly adopting laws and regulations that aim…
An Introduction to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Published: 2019 | Mark P. Keightley | Congressional Research Service Abstract The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program is one of the federal government’s primary policy tools for encouraging the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental housing.
The rise and effects of homeowners associations
Published: 2019 | Wyatt Clarkea, Matthew Freedman | Urban Economics Abstract In the U.S., nearly 60% of recently built single-family houses, and 80% of houses in new subdivisions, are part of a homeowners association (HOA). We construct the first near-national…
The Effect of New Luxury Housing on Regional Housing Affordability
Published: 2019 | Evan Mast | The Captured Economy Abstract I study the short-run effect of new housing construction on housing affordability using individual address history data. Because most new construction is expensive, its effect on the market for more…
Sand Castles Before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities
Published: 2019 | Gabriel Metcalf | The Journal of Economic Prespectives Abstract This article focuses on cities with unprecedented economic success and a seemingly permanent crisis of affordable housing. In the expensive cities, policymakers expend great amounts of energy trying…
Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
Published: 2019 | PolicyLink Abstract Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement. Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool…
New rail transit stations and the out-migration of low-income residents
Published: 2019 | Elizabeth Delmelle, Isabelle Nilsson | Urban Studies Abstract This article tests the hypothesis that low-income residents disproportionately move out of neighbourhoods in close proximity to new rail transit stations. This transit-induced gentrification scenario posits that the development…
Locked Out: Reversing Federal Housing Failures and Unlocking Opportunity
Published: 2019 | Office of Congressman Earl Blumenaur
Driving into Debt
Published: 2019 | R. J. Cross and Tony Dutzik, Frontier Group | Ed Mierzwinski and Matt Casale, U.S. Pirg Education Fund Abstract In much of America, access to a car is all but required to hold a job or lead…
Racial Rent Differences in U.S. Housing Markets
Published: 2018 | Dirk W. Early, Paul E. Carrillo, Edgar O. Olsen Abstract This paper exploits an unusually rich data set to estimate racial differences in the rents paid for identical housing in the same neighborhood in U.S. housing markets…