The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Living and Leaving: Housing, Mobility and Welfare in the European Union – World Bank
• Why house prices in global cities are falling – Economist
• Comment – On building typologies of housing systems in the OECD – IDEAS

On the US:

• California Midterm Results: Funding for Affordable Housing and a Rent Control Defeat – New York Times
• Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s – NBER
• No boom, no bust in US housing – Financial Times
• Local Banks, Credit Supply, and House Prices – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Income Tax Expenditures for Housing and Homeownership – Tax Policy Center
• Housing America’s Older Adults 2018 – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• Housing Sentiment Continues Downward Trend Despite Favorable Economy – Fannie Mae
• Buy young, earn more: Buying a house before age 35 gives homeowners more bang for their buck – Urban Institute
• Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Era of FinTech – UC Berkeley
• Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability – NYU Furman Center
• Why Cities Must Tackle Single-Family Zoning – CityLab

On other countries:

• [Australia] Assessing the Effects of Housing Lending Policy Measures – Reserve Bank of Australia
• [China] A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty. That’s 50 Million Apartments – Bloomberg
• [France] New or old, why would housing price indices differ? An analysis for France – IDEAS
• [France] The impact of the 2014 increase in the real estate transfer taxes on the French housing market – IDEAS
• [France] Paris property benefits from Brexit bounce – Financial Times
• [France] Does issuing building permits reduce the cost of land? – Bourgogne Franche‑Comté
• [Italy] Home is where the ad is: online interest proxies housing demand – EPJ Data Science
• [Slovak Republic] Housing Policy in the Slovak Republic – Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
• [Spain] La demanda sigue impulsando nuevos proyectos de inversión residencial – BBVA
• [United Kingdom] The collapse in public ownership of land – Financial Times

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