The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Making Affordable Housing a Reality in Cities – World Economic Forum
• How Airbnb became key to turning homes into businesses – Financial Times
• European city living gets less affordable – Financial Times
• Architects look to floating cities as sea levels rise – Financial Times

On the US:

• Affordable Housing and City Welfare – NBER
• Cory Booker unveils plan to combat housing ‘affordability crisis’ – CNN, Los Angeles Times and New York Times
• Like college debt and climate change, the housing affordability crisis is generational warfare – Slate
• Charts of the week: Housing markets – Brookings
• Why Some Americans Won’t Move, Even for a Higher Salary – Citylab
• How California’s big plans to address housing affordability crashed – Los Angeles Times
• Escaping the Housing Shortage – Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• How Luxury Units Turn Into Affordable Housing – Citylab

On other countries:

• [China] China Curbs Property Developers’ Funding to Cool Land Prices – Bloomberg
• [Germany] Stress testing the German mortgage market – Deutsche Bundesbank
• [Germany] Germany’s house price growth accelerates – Global Property Guide
• [Hong Kong] Hong Kong’s house price boom is over – Global Property Guide
• [Ireland] Ireland’s house price rises continue, albeit at a much slower pace – Global Property Guide
• [New Zealand] Controlling house price affordability: Look to the rental market – Massey University
• [Portugal] Portugal’s housing market is strengthening – Global Property Guide
• [Slovak Republic] Slovak Republic’s house price rises continue – Global Property Guide
• [Syria] The architects with radical designs for rebuilding Syria – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Behind the housing crisis – Property Journal
• [United Kingdom] Is building more houses the answer? – Property Journal