In dem Antrag der SPD-Landtagsfraktion in NRW wird die Landesregierung für ihre Wohnungspolitik kritisiert (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2023). Dabei werden drei Themen besonders fokussiert: die fehlende Reaktion auf die Wohnungsbaukrise, die unzureichende Unterstützung von Sozialwohnungen und...

Mit dem Zensus 2022 liegen erstmals seit 2011 wieder verlässliche regionale Daten zum Wohneigentum in Deutschland vor. Der Zeitraum zwischen den beiden Zensuserhebungen entspricht nahezu deckungsgleich dem Immobilienmarktboom der 2010er-Jahre in Deutschland. Dies nutzt die vorliegende Studie,...

Die CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion fordert die Bundesregierung auf, den Zugang zu Wohneigentum zu erleichtern und schlägt hierfür eine Reihe von Maßnahmen vor, wie etwa die Einführung eines Freibetrags bei der Grunderwerbsteuer oder aber die Weiterentwicklung des KfW-Wohneigentumsprogramms. Im...

We use the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Choice Voucher program as a setting to evaluate the interaction of homeownership and race on the wealth accumulation of low-income households. Using a within-treatment difference-in-differences framework, we establish that...

In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen markedly and affordability challenges in terms of meeting housing costs have...

This paper analyzes the effects of German homeownership subsidies on the intra-city rent structure. Using a large-scale micro data set on German rent offerings, I first construct novel city rent indexes that include various rings around cities' CBDs. Using triple differences (TD) frameworks, I...

Wohneigentum verdient in NRW und im gesamten Bundesgebiet mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Hier bestehen große Chancen, die Altersvorsorge vieler Bürger zu verbessern, die Vermögensverteilung gleichmäßiger zu gestalten und sogar Wohnkosten zu reduzieren. Dazu sollten aber Hemmnisse in der...

The real economic cost of homeownership depends on an intricate system of taxes and subsides that vary over time and across the United States. We incorporate the key features of this system into a framework for measuring the annual user-cost of housing and we use it to document how housing costs...

"Right to Buy" (RTB), a large-scale natural experiment by which incumbent tenants in public housing could buy properties at heavily-subsidised prices, increased the UK homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. This paper studies its impact on crime, showing...

This report provides a high-level review of the degree to which the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL) has met its objectives. It also scopes the need for ongoing intervention, details who is applying for the scheme and assesses selected operational considerations such as credit risks, funding...

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies which tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany...

Die Fraktion der SPD (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2019) kritisiert in Ihrem Antrag die Landesregierung für die stärkere Wohneigentumsförderung im Rahmen der sozialen Wohnraumförderung. Tatsächlich ist mit dem Regierungswechsel die Akzentuierung der sozialen Wohnraumförderung verändert...

The U.S. government guarantees a majority of residential mortgages, which is often justified as a means to promote homeownership. In this paper we use property-level data to estimate the effect of government mortgage guarantees on homeownership, by exploiting variation of the conforming loan...

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when...

Vermögensbildung fördern – den Souverän stärken. Die verfassungsrechtliche Sicht -- Eigentum, Vermögensbildung und Wohlstandsschaffung – ethische Aspekte aus der Tradition der christlichen Soziallehre -- Kapitalismus für alle, statt Staatskapitalismus -- Eigentum – wozu? Analyse und...

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when...

The United States Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) has been a versatile tool of government since it was created during the Great Depression. It achieved success with some of its goals and had a terrible record with others. Its impact on African-American households falls, in many ways,...

Using unique consumer financial transactions of more than 56,000 consumers, we study the consumption response to a housing policy experiment in Singapore that resulted in a decrease in access to home equity. Using difference-in-differences analysis, we find a significant negative consumption...

Two recent empirical papers have blamed the Fed for the latest boom and bust in housing. Neither study includes long-term interest rates, which are more affected by global factors than the federal funds rate (FFR). In this paper, I include both the mortgage rate and the FFR as determinants of...