The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• The Pursuit of Financial Stability and Tasks for Monetary, Regulatory, and Macro-Prudential Policies – IMF
• True Affordability: Critiquing the International Housing Affordability Survey – Victoria Transport Policy Institute

On the US:

• Affordable housing: Supply side innovation? – Rutgers Center for Real Estate
• Land-Use Regulations, Property Values, and Rents: Decomposing the Effects of the California Coastal Act – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• For Low-Income Renters, the Affordable Housing Gap Persists – Citylab
• How Mortgage Companies Might Finally Be Held Accountable – The Nation
• Segregation Forever? Richard Rothstein speaks at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Economic Policy Institute
• Mortgage Debt and Shadow Banks – De Nederlandsche Bank
• Housing as a hub for health, community services, and upward mobility – Brookings
• The Seven Sizzling Housing Markets – John Burns Real Estate Consulting
• The Next Housing Crisis: A Historic Shortage of New Homes – Wall Street Journal
• Spring may not be so hot for U.S. housing markets – Global Property Guide
• A housing recovery without homeowners – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• California Housing Problems Are Spilling Across Its Borders – New York Times
• Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Housing More Unaffordable – Reason
• Valuing urban land: Comparing the use of teardown and vacant land sales – Regional Science and Urban Economics
• Suburban Housing Costs Are Stretching Families to the Brink – Slate
• Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• How Do Funding and Review Processes Shape the Design of Affordable Housing? – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

On other countries:

• [Canada] The Propagation of Regional Shocks in Housing Markets: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks in Canada – Bank of Canada
• [Iceland] Short-term renting of residential apartments Effects of Airbnb in the Icelandic housing market – Central Bank of Iceland
• [Switzerland] Swiss central bank warns of ‘correction’ in real estate – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Rethinking London’s ‘ripple effect’ on house prices: other UK regions transmit shocks too – London School of Economics
• [United Kingdom] Home Ownership Aspirations Survey – Cluttons

Photo by Aliis Sinisalu