The impact of living in public rental housing on employment has been the subject of debate internationally. Theory suggests that restrictions on residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and the place-based housing subsidy itself contribute to the higher rates of unemployment often observed...

Changing patterns of urban development in Latin America have drawn increasing attention to residential segregation, yet systematic quantitative analysis remains limited. Using data from the Mexican census of 2000, this paper describes spatial patterns and levels of segregation by ethnicity and...

China's property market has been the subject of much media coverage in recent years. Rapid price increases for residential property and the possibility of a price bubble in many cities has led the central government to take a myriad of regulatory measures to cool housing markets. Scholarly...

The idea of a housing deficit is a common, seemingly objective frame for housing policies. A deficit of between 3 and 8 million units in Indonesia has become a concern for the government in recent years. The wide range of estimates demonstrates not only that the methods used to estimate housing...

The profiteering developer is a common figure in debates over housing policy. Governments increasingly use developer profits to justify policies like inclusionary housing. Yet, we actually understand little about the competitiveness of housing development. One unresolved question is whether...

Most analyses of the determinants of land prices in urban areas make inferences from data on housing transactions which combine payments for land and long-lived improvements. In contrast, this study utilizes a large sample of market transactions on unimproved land in a major US metropolitan area...

We introduce a new way to measure the stringency of housing regulation. In lieu of a standard regulatory index or a single aspect of regulation like Floor Area Ratio, we draw on California cities’ estimates of their own total capacity for new housing. This measure of regulatory buildout...

The spatial distribution of households of different income groups in urban areas has drawn longstanding attention from scholars and policy makers as residential location patterns have important implications for social outcomes and the economic efficiency of cities. Recent research on the...