R Molloy - Regional science and urban economics, 2020 - aei.org
The cost of housing has posed a growing weight on household budgets over the past halfcentury. As shown in Figure 1, whereas only about one quarter of renter households …
For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists–and stimulated …
E Glaeser, J Gyourko - Journal of economic perspectives, 2018 - aeaweb.org
In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better understand the distribution of home prices, household wealth, and …
Does America face an affordable housing crisis and, if so, why? This paper argues that in much of America the price of housing is quite close to the marginal, physical costs of new …
B Fingleton - Urban studies, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The affordability of housing is a major policy issue that has increasingly become a concern for UK government as house prices have risen dramatically in recent years. This is partly …
PD Linneman, IF Megbolugbe - Urban studies, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
The editors of Urban Studies Review have cially as a means of wealth accumulation) charged the authors with providing a syn-and privatisation. This paper focuses prithesis of …
JM Quigley, S Raphael - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004 - aeaweb.org
This paper reviews trends in housing affordability in the US over the past four decades. There is little evidence that owner-occupied housing has become less affordable. In …
KB Anacker - International Journal of Housing Policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction discusses select aspects of housing affordability in terms of household expenditures and household incomes and select aspects of affordable housing. It provides a …
KE Hancock - Urban studies, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
The term'afford ability'has been gaining currency in housing policy debates, but neither government nor academic researchers have given much consideration to defining it. This …