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Vienna’s social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor economist.com/europe/2024/08… from The Economist

"I find that rents fall by 2% for parcels within 100m of new construction. Renters' risk of displacement to a lower-income neighborhood falls by 17%. Both effects decay linearly to zero within 1.5km." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

You know what? I'm going to set aside all my liberal arguments (we need affordable housing, segregation is bad) and libertarian arguments (zoning infringes on property rights) for why zoning reform is good, and I'm going to make a *conservative* argument for it.

The supply of rental housing in Buenos Aires has jumped 195.2% since the repeal of rent control. newsweek.com/javier-milei-r…

“The steady march of the childless city is not merely the inevitable result of declining birth rates. It’s the result of urban policy, conceived by, written by, and enacted by liberals,” Derek Thompson writes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Lower Housing Costs by Cutting Red Tape to Build More Housing whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… via @whitehouse

💡🌆🏗️🏘️💡NEW IDEAS (and proven winners)! The Mercatus Center Menu of Options for state housing reform in 2025 is out today. Great work by Emily Hamilton and Charlie Gardner; the mediocre parts are mine😉 mercatus.org/research/polic…

Boomers Buying Houses Had It Bad in the ’80s. Millennials Have It Worse. wsj://article/WP-WSJ-0001933237?st=j4l5bqvtxbmf1l7

New-home construction in the US fell in July to the lowest level since the aftermath of the pandemic as builders respond to weak demand that’s keeping inventory levels high. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Economics

from Evan Soltas evansoltas.com/papers/SoltasJ…

Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it economist.com/briefing/2024/… from The Economist

Great post today by Rob Warnock @apartmentlist: Re-thinking How We Measure Homeownership apartmentlist.com/research/rethi…

If you want to understand how the housing shortage went from a mostly coastal issue to a full-blown crisis and the nation's biggest economic problem, take a trip to Kalamazoo. My story: nytimes.com/2024/08/22/bus…

America’s recession signals are flashing red. Don’t believe them economist.com/finance-and-ec… from The Economist

New York City implemented vacancy control, banned Airbnb, has rent control, etc And the monthly rent on a one bedroom apartment Just hit $4500

The article also quotes Ed Glaeser (Harvard University) and Jenny Schuetz (The Brookings Institution). An ungated version from Yahoo Finance is here: finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-…

If a shocking number of people fall below some reasonable threshold of what we deem fair to spend on housing—whether that’s 30% or 50%, or some other figure—then that is a problem primarily to do with the unequal distribution of incomes.

This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opi…

Housing IS the story And it’s a global story chart via Financial Times h/t Eduardo González de Molina