The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Why Jimmy Carter Believes Housing Is a Basic Human Right – Citylab
• When the (Empty) Apartment Next Door Is Owned by an Oligarch – New York Times
• ¿Por qué las ciudades se vuelven incosteables? – El Economista
• The impact of oil shocks on the housing market: Evidence from Canada and U.S – Journal of Economics and Business

On the US:

• Having Shed Young Workers, the Construction Industry Needs Change – BuildZoom
• The Toughest Places to Build: Behind the Scenes of a Wall Street Journal Analysis – BuildZoom
• Inventory Myth Busting: Why is Home Inventory So Low? – Trulia
• Housing Prices: Highs and Lows – Conversable Economist
• We’re Finally Building More Small Homes, but Construction Remains at Historically Low Levels – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• Housing Shortage: Where is the Undersupply of New Construction Worst? – Apartment List
• Echoes of Rising Tuition in Students’ Borrowing, Educational Attainment, and Homeownership in Post-Recession America – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• A promising new coalition looks to rewrite the politics of urban housing – Vox
• Boosting Taxes for Boasting about Houses: Status Concerns in the Housing Market – TU Wien
• Study: Tax subsidies like the mortgage interest deduction have ‘zero effect on homeownership’ – American Enterprise Institute
• These four trends in rental housing have big implications for the growing affordable housing crisis – Urban Institute

On other countries:

•  [Canada] Housing Market Assessment — CMHC