The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• European House Prices Tell Very Different Economic Tales: Chart – Bloomberg

On the US:

• Homeownership Aspirations: The Enduring, But Evolving, American Dream – Zillow
• Even fully employed and moderate income households struggle to-pay the rent – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• How a Tiny Bank From the Ozarks Got Big and Outpaced Wall Street’s Real Estate Machine – Bloomberg
• Housing an Aging Region – Urban Institute
• Building and Protecting Affordable and Adequate Rental Housing – Urban Institute
• Rebuilding and Sustaining Homeownership for African Americans – Urban Institute
• Tackling Southeast Michigan’s Biggest Housing Challenges – Urban Institute
• The state of millennial homeownership – Urban Institute
• Under US housing policies, homeowners mostly win, while renters mostly lose – Brookings
• Pentagon Says It Won’t Pay for Housing of Immigrants – Foreign Policy
• Trying to Cut Crime in Public Housing by Making It More Livable – New York Times
• Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All? – Institute of Labor Economics
• House Money: Wall Street Is Raising More Cash Than Ever for Its Rental-Home Gambit – Wall Street Journal
• Americans Burdened by Increasing Housing Costs, Slow Wage Gains – Bloomberg
• Shared Prosperity (or Lack Thereof) in the Sharing Economy – Purdue University, Washington Post

On other countries:

• [Australia] Australian Tightening of Property Loan Standards Mostly Over – Bloomberg
• [Canada] Toronto And Vancouver Top-Tier Housing Markets Headed In Opposite Directions: Sotheby’s – Huffington Post
• [Canada] Vancouver, Can We Talk About Housing Without Getting So Angry? – The Tyee
• [China] Why women own less housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers – Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
• [China] China scales back property subsidies, adding to growth concerns – Financial Times
• [China] China: An Uneven Housing Market – Continuum Economics
• [China] China to restrict subsidies for shantytown redevelopment projects – Reuters
• [Japan] Lack of supply drives rise in Kyoto’s property prices – Financial Times
• [Singapore] Three Charts That Help Explain Singapore’s New Property Curbs – Bloomberg
• [Spain] El precio del alquiler en España sigue sin encontrar techo – Reuters
• [Singapore] Singapore’s Cooling Measures and Its Housing Market – Journal of Housing Economics
• [United Kingdom] Bank of England should aim to freeze house prices for five years – report – Guardian

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