The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Social rental intermediation. How private landlords can contribute to solve the housing crisis? – Housing Europe
• What are some of the primary driving forces behind the Urban Housing Crunch? – Forbes
• What if the future of housing means accepting that a home isn’t permanent? – Quartz
• Macroprudential approaches to non-performing loans – ESRB

On the US:

• How Monetary Policy Shaped the Housing Boom – New York University
• Inside the Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme – New York Times
• Rents Are Up? That Depends on Where You Live – New York Times
• California housing crisis podcast: Will a boom in building make housing more affordable? – Los Angeles Times
• UCLA Ziman Program – a First Nationwide – Teaches Affordable Housing Development – UCLA
• U.S. housing outlook stuck in a lull as economy dulls: Reuters poll – Reuters
• Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Rise by Least in Four Years – Bloomberg
• Real House Prices and Price-to-Rent Ratio in December – Calculated Risk
• Trouble In The Housing Market – Forbes
• Slowing Home Price Growth and Construction Hit Housing Market – Wall Street Journal
• Is Housing in Your City Getting Unaffordable? Here’s How You Can Help – Citylab
• Can housing reform survive a hall of mirrors? – Boston Globe
• Seattle-area home price cooldown not reaching cheaper parts of housing market – Seattle Times
• California’s housing supply law fails to spur enough construction, study says – Los Angeles Times

On other countries:

• [Australia] Australian Home Lending Now Weakest Since the Mid-1980s – Bloomberg
• [Australia] House price falls in Sydney and Melbourne not all bad, Reserve Bank head says – The Guardian
• [Australia] Australia’s housing data still terrible across the board – Variant Perception
• [Canada] Affordable housing becomes singular focus of Toronto’s new real estate czar – Globe and Mail
• [Canada] Bank of Canada says housing crunch threatens Canadian economy – Fraser Institute
• [Canada] Canada’s housing market set for years of subdued price rises: Reuters poll – Reuters
• [Canada] Another budget, another missed opportunity to tackle B.C.’s housing shortage – Fraser Institute
• [China] Capital Gains Tax would see house prices fall as investors flee market ahead of tax’s implementation – REINZ – New Zealand Herald
• [China] China’s Huge Number of Vacant Apartments Are Causing a Problem – Citylab
• [Denmark] Danish Study Quantifies Impact of House Prices on Consumption – Bloomberg
• [Hong Kong] Why Hong Kong Is Claiming Golf Greens for New Housing – Citylab
• [India] India Cuts Tax on Housing to Boost Real Estate Before Elections – Bloomberg
• [Ireland] Ireland’s house price rises continue, albeit at a much slower pace – Global Property Guide
• [Israel] Changes in the share of first home buyers among young people, based on income level – Bank of Israel
• [Netherlands] House prices expected to keep rising this year, homeownership unattainable for more and more people – Rabobank
• [New Zealand] New Zealand Locks the Doors From the Inside – New York Times
• [New Zealand] Sale of portable cabins booms in New Zealand amid housing crisis – The Guardian
• [Sweden] Refugees and apartment prices: A case study to investigate the attitudes of home buyers – Regional Science and Urban Economics
• [United Kingdom] No-deal Brexit would take a chip off UK home values – Reuters poll – Reuters
• [United Kingdom] Housing costs: Five surprises explained – BBC
• [United Kingdom] A solution to the housing crisis? – Financial Times