This article argues for a fresh look at how we provide long-term care (LTC) for older persons. Essentially, LTC offers a compensatory service that responds to frailty. Policy debate around LTC centers on costs, but we are paying for something we really don't want. Building societal enthusiasm (or even support) for LTC will require re-inventing and re-branding. LTC has three basic components: pe...

Over the past decade, housing costs have risen faster than incomes. The need for affordable rental housing has well outpaced the number of available units as well as funding allocations at the federal level. Local regulation and land use policies that increase the cost of subsidized, mixed-income housing construction and preservation have contributed to the affordability problem. To meet the af...

Abstract That older people should be consumers and active agents has dominated policy discourse across health, social care housing that a core function. This some established long-standing critics, such as Gilleard Higgs, yet the central question(s) consumerist raises remains surprisingly relevant today. The purpose of this forum article is to reconsider viability agency amongst in context empi...

Numerous studies conducted to assess welfare of domestic dogs housed in kennel facilities have reported that these dogs experience suboptimal living conditions. One important goal of improving welfare of kennelled dogs is to reduce their stress levels, and one recommended approach for improving welfare of kennelled dogs is group or social housing. The beneficial effects of management changes de...

The conventional approach to evaluating a law is to examine its effect on proximate behavior. To evaluate a new criminal law, for example, the conventional approach would look to changes in the crime rate. This paper argues instead that laws should be judged by the extent to which they raise housing prices and lower wages. The logic is that the value of a law, much like the value of a lake or a...

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as latent variable and relies on first-order condition profit maximization combined with zero-profit condition. More desirable locations command higher land prices and, in turn, more capital build houses. For parcels of given size, we compute housing by summing across marginal p...

The housing market setting constitutes a fundamental model of exchange economies of goods. In most of the work concerning housing markets, it is assumed that agents own and are allocated discrete houses. The drawback of this assumption is that it does not cater for randomized assignments or allocation of time-shares. Recently, house allocation with fractional endowment of houses was considered ...