The Unassuming Economist

On the US:

• Oregon’s new rent control law is only a band-aid on the state’s housing woes – Brookings
• Trickle-down housing economics – Northwestern University
• Slicing New York’s Housing Pie – New York Times
• Lens, Manville Shape Discussion of How Housing Can Be Coupled to Transit – Citylab
• Protect First Time Buyers and Taxpayers. Let the “Patch” Expire – American Enterprise Institute
• Boston Wants to Flip More Market-Rate Apartments into Affordable Housing – Next City
• Real Time Economics: More Americans Are Buying a Home Again – Wall Street Journal
• Climate change is hurting coastal real estate values. Oh, we’re losing ocean fish, too –Los Angeles Times
• Ask the Economist with Skylar Olsen – DSNews
• The Affordable Housing Crisis Across The U.S.: ‘Where We Call Home,’ Part 1 – wbur
• Oregon, the Rent Control State – Wall Street Journal
• Housing Affordability for Renters Index: Local Perspective and Migration – Urban Institute
• Three differences between black and white homeownership that add to the housing wealth gap – Urban Institute
• Housing Finance At A Glance: A Monthly Chartbook, February 2019 – Urban Institute
• How student debt may foster homeownership – University of Chicago
• Cheaper Housing Options Boost Homeownership in Some U.S. Metros – Bloomberg
• Redfin: These housing markets give low-income families a better shot at the American Dream – HousingWire

On other countries:

• [Australia] The Housing Market and the Economy – Reserve Bank of Australia
• [Australia] Australian House Prices Provide Food for Doves and Hawks – Bloomberg
• [Australia] Here Are the Winners From Australia’s Property-Market Downturn – Bloomberg
• [China] Chinese Banks Will Rise or Fall With the Property Market – Wall Street Journal
• [Luxembourg] No end in sight for upward housing market spiral in Luxembourg – Financial Times
• [Netherlands] As Amsterdam Overheats, Investors See Rent Cap Scaring off Money – Bloomberg
• [Portugal] Portugal’s housing market is strengthening – Global Property Guide
• [Thailand] Thailand’s modest house price rises – Global Property Guide
• [United Kingdom] Some of Britain’s wealthiest areas hit by house price drops of up to 25 percent – Global Property Guide