Rent Control and Public Housing

Rent Assistance and Housing Demand

1 Tlie authoxs thank paitidpants at a seminar in Konstanz fox theii comments. Reraain-ing eirors are ours. The Cential Bureau of Statistics ptovided the data. Abstract We examine the effect of a rent subsidy program, Rent Assistance, on the demand for rental housing in The Netherlands. Low-income households with a rent that exceeds a norm rent, but is smaller than a maximum rent are eligible fo...

Constant Quality Rent Indexes for Affordable Housing

This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock. In each of the five contrasting metropolitan areas, rent inflation since the late 1980s is found to have varied by market segment. In some metro areas, rental prices have risen most rapidly in the bottom third of the rent distribution, ...

Rent Control

Rent vouchers and the price of low - income housing *

Since the early 1980s, low-income housing subsidies have increasingly shifted towards vouchers which allow recipients to rent in the private market. By 1993, vouchers subsidized as many households as lived in traditional housing projects, although most low-income households did not receive any subsidies. This study investigates whether this policy has raised rents for unsubsidized poor househol...

Rent stabilization and the long-run supply of housing

Alastair McFarlane U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Washington, D.C. 20410 Tel. 202 708 0426 Fax 202 708 1159 Email: [email protected] Original: May 1999 First revision: August 2001 JEL Classifications: R11 (Analysis of growth, development, and changes;) R33 (Housing supply and markets); and R38 (government policies; regulatory ...