What is the optimal rate of new housing supply? We answer this question with a simple model supply where choice variable lot sales. This informed by cost-side assumptions static equilibrium but allows for demand home-buying to vary over time. It differs from models production assuming that landowners hold land assets are sold in asset markets create supply. Landowners maximise present value the...

The lack for accessible housing in Australia has contributed to the marginalisation and exclusion of people with disability, older people and their families (Saugeres, 2010). It has also resulted in significant cost to the community, through an over-reliance on support services and specialist accommodation, and responses to avoidable home-based injuries (Ozanne-Smith, Guy, Kelly & Clapperton, 2...

Homeless people have been found to exhibit high levels of personal disability (mental illness, substance abuse), extreme degrees of social estrangement, and deep poverty. Each of these conditions poses unique housing problems, which are discussed here. In the 1980s, the number of poor people has increased and the supply of low-income housing has dwindled; these trends provide the background aga...

We show that since 1994, branching deregulations in the U.S have signi…cantly a¤ected the supply of mortgage credit, and ultimately house prices. With deregulation, the number and volume of originated mortgage loans increase, while denial rates fall. But the deregulation has no e¤ect on a placebo sample, formed of Independent Mortgage Companies that should not be a¤ected by the regulatory chang...

Significant differences exist between national, regional, and local housing markets in the extent to which land is available for new housing development and in the planning regime which regulates the supply of land. The author examines the impact of different levels and forms of planning restraint on the process of market adjustment, including effects on house and land prices, on quantity of ne...

I estimate spillovers from new housing supply on house prices. To these effects, use exogenous variation in induced by a subsidy implemented middle-income neighborhoods the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. find evidence externalities prices, with prices increasing 12%. explore two possible mechanisms externalities: income and crime rates. Although suggests reduction property rates, changes neighbor...

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 ...

Incrementality is a spontaneous phenomenon in informal settlements practiced by local inhabitants after the failure of formal housing supply. This paper focuses on research of incremental housing projects with design interventions to understand how can architects position themselves in this autonomy traditions but also set rules and create opportunities to promote a well-organized community for...

In many African countries a market for private provision of formal sector mass housing is largely absent. This is not inevitable, but is the consequence of policy failure surrounding five key issues. The affordability of housing, with costs often inflated by inappropriate building regulations and inefficient construction sectors; lack of clarity in land titling and legal enforcement; lack of in...