The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Debate Over Lunch: How Architecture Brings Us Together – OECD
• Identifying booms and busts in house prices under heterogeneous expectations – Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• The housing cycle: What role for mortgage market development and housing finance? – Loughborough University

On rent control:

• Housing Supply Dynamics under Rent Control: What Can Evictions Tell Us? – American Economic Association
• Spatial Misallocation and Rent Controls – American Economic Association
• The Effects of Second-Generation Rent Control on Land Values – American Economic Association
• Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco’s Rent Control Expansion – Stanford University

On the US:

• Press Briefing on the Evolution and Future of Homeownership – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• An expert’s 7 principles for solving America’s housing crisis – Vox
• Monetary Policy, Housing Rents, and Inflation Dynamics – Federal Reserve Board
• The Great Recession, education, race, and homeownership – Economic Policy Institute
• Why Isn’t The Black Homeownership Rate Higher Today Than When The 1968 Fair Housing Act Became Law? – Forbes
• ‘Fairbnb’ Wants to Be the Unproblematic Alternative to Airbnb – Citylab
• Trump Administration Wants To Cut Funding For Public Housing Repairs – NPR
• California Today: Lawmakers Shelve a Potential Remedy to the Housing Crisis – New York Times
• 3 Top REITs With High Dividend Yields Above 5% And Secure Payouts – Seeking Alpha
• Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices Across the United States: Does One Size Fit All? – Economic Development Quarterly
• Undersupply in Housing Inventory – CoreLogic
• Spain’s Richest Person Bets Billions on Prime U.S. Real Estate – Bloomberg
• Despite Resistance, Cities Turn to Density to Tackle Housing Inequality – CityLab
• Special Incentive for Property Buyers: A Foreign Passport – New York Times
• Shortage of cheaper houses stifles U.S. homes sales – Reuters
• California’s big housing bill tanked. Newsom is partly to blame – Los Angeles Times
• How Do Mortgage Refinances Affect Debt, Default, and Spending? – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

On other countries:

• [Canada] Real estate prices and banking performance: evidence from Canada – Journal of Economics and Finance
• [India] Affordable Housing as Human Right – Yale University
• [Portugal] The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: evidence from Portugal – Ideas
• [United Kingdom] UK housing: Resilient in the face of turmoil – ING