Abstract The global SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 Pandemic has disrupted public health,
economies, and housing markets since early 2020. The shock has called forth a number of …

I illustrate how new market-rate construction loosens the market for lower-quality housing
through a series of moves. First, I use address history data to identify 52,000 residents of …

Planning policies in Europe and elsewhere increasingly promote urban densification as the
spatial planning solution for achieving urban sustainability goals. However, examples from …

Increasing supply is frequently proposed as a solution to rising housing costs. However,
there is little evidence on how new market-rate construction—which is typically expensive …

Urban densification is often advocated as one of the most desirable ways to develop
sustainable communities. However, gentrification scholars have criticized densification …

We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using
geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of …

We investigate the urban transformation strategies of major developers and other key actors
in the context of neoliberalism and its influence on politics, including urban development …

Recent research suggests that inner-city parents have become more loyal to urban living. If
this is true, it is certainly good news for compact-city policies, which incorporate residential …

Although “supply skeptics” claim that new housing supply does not slow growth in rents, we
show that rigorous recent studies demonstrate that: 1) Increases in housing supply slow the …

Urban density is central to pressing questions concerning low-carbon lifestyles, affordable
housing and global land use patterns. However, for many densifying cities, problems of …