Economics of Housing Policies

Prices surged and inventory dried up.

Funding for many school districts comes from local property taxes, which skews the playing field between wealthy and poor students early on.

Argentina's housing supply has exploded, and rental prices have plummeted since President Javier Milei junked a socialist rent control law.

The American Community Survey is the premier source for information about America's changing population, housing and workforce.

An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

A simulation of the multi-faceted process of searching, buying, financing, and insuring a single-family home

VIDEO DESCRIPTION If you find someone squatting in your house, it turns out that there’s often very little you can do to get them out, because laws meant to ...

While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.

Taking into account regional income differences can help us understand the behavior of housing markets.

New York City’s government has imposed draconian rent controls. The natural outcome, as economists note, has been massive shortages, as apartment owners no

How much of your income should you spend on rent or a house payment?

1h 40m | PG

Redlining in New Deal America

Redlining in New Deal America

From coast to coast, the median down payment on a single family home can be close to $100,000 or less than $10,000.

Housing impacts local economies. See estimates of the jobs, income, and taxes generated from typical single family and multifamily housing projects.

null

When mortgage rates are near 3%, the majority of buyers break even and start building up a windfall relative to a renter making financial investments

More tenants than ever spend half or more of their income for shelter, leaving less for everything else, taking an emotional toll and leaving some without a place to call their own.

What does it take to buy a home in the U.S.? A lot more than it did before the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.

Why are houses and apartments so expensive in some big cities? To an economist, the real question is, “Why is housing supply inelastic in some cities?”Alex Tabarrok explains the definition of elasticity with a simple real-world example. When good jobs are created in a city, more people want to move there–an increase in demand for housing. A supply and demand graph shows that this should lead to a new market equilibrium with a greater quantity of housing sold, at a higher price. But which will increase more, price or quantity?

Explore year-over-year changes in home prices regionally and nationally

VIDEO DESCRIPTION Everywhere it's tried, rent control harms the people it's meant to help. Yet politicians continue to implement it. AVAILABLE RES ...

The rules that keep American housing expensive.Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjOOver the past year,...

California’s zoning laws make it harder for working‐​class and low‐​income families to find housing they can afford. Even more disconcertingly, California’s ...

Zoning may seem boring, but it dictates what can and can't be built in your city. I go through the basics of the zoning code (zoning ordinance), describe the...