There is an emergent field of writings on financialized landlords’ undertaking apartment renovations as investment strategy and its effect housing inequalities. Seldom do these studies contextualize tendencies within countries’ specific policy traditions. Therefore, through a qualitative case study in neighbourhood Sweden, this paper aims to uncover how private landlords undertake tenants and, ...

nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Government efforts to improve local economic conditions by encouraging private investment in targeted communities could affect the broader geographic distribution of employment in a region, especially to the extent that subsidized businesses face few constraints on whom they hire. This paper examines the labor market impacts of investment subsidized by the U.S. federal government’s New Markets ...

Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University or of any of the persons or organizations providing support to the Joint Center for Housing Studies. Acknowledgment I would like to thank Sandra Newman and Joseph Harkness of the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University for helping me construct the overall f...

— The sale and lease real estate markets have cyclical developments which are often dissimilar in the short term and then take coincident trends in longer horizons. The imbalance in the relationship between prices and income is normally used by economists to determine any "housing bubbles". However, the structural limitations require caution in the use of the ratio between prices and rents as a...