Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the…
This paper shows how different housing submarkets are linked by residential vacancy chains – the series of moves across housing units initiated by the construction of new…
What is the impact of the sharing economy, pioneered by companies such as Airbnb, on the housing market? In this paper, Sophie Calder-Wang estimates the welfare and…
What is the impact of the sharing economy, pioneered by companies such as Airbnb, on housing markets in expensive, supply-constrained cities? In “The Distributional Impact of…
W01-10: The multifamily mortgage market has changed dramatically over the last two decades. The relative importance of the thrifts—once the major source of financing for…