Download or read book Price Elasticities of Housing Supply written by C. Peter Rydell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the price elasticity of the supply of rental housing services, defined as the percentage increase in supply associated with a one percent increase in price. The purpose of the report is to predict the price changes associated with supply responses to shifts in demand. Section II analyzes each component of supply response separately. It presents price elasticities for the repair, inventory, and occupancy responses to demand shifts. It reviews the literature on all three and offers new estimates for the second and third (the estimates are based on the analysis of Annual Housing Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau reported in Appendix B). Section III combines the three individual supply elasticities into a composite elasticity. It accomplishes the integration using a model of housing-market responses to demand shifts presented in Appendix C. The model was built during the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment to explain the housing market's response to demand shifts caused by an experimental housing allowance program.
Download or read book PRICE ELASTICITIES OF HOUSING SUPPLY HOUSING ASSISTANCE SUPPLY EXPERIMENT written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Income Elasticity of Housing Demand written by John E. Mulford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates the long-run "permanent" income elasticity of housing expenditures to be 0.45 for owners and 0.19 for renters using cross-sectional data from the two Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) sites--Brown County, Wisconsin, and St. Joseph County, Indiana. Results from a constant elasticity model are compared with those from models which allow the elasticity to vary with income--linear, spline, and log-exponential models. The evidence is consistent with either constant or slightly increasing elasticity with income. Estimated elasticities do not vary systematically by household type. The report concludes that the income elasticity of housing expenditures in the HASE sites is low, both absolutely and relative to conventional wisdom and recently published estimates. If the findings are generally correct, pure income transfers will not much affect recipients' housing expenditures.
Download or read book Shortrun Response of Housing Markets to Demand Shifts written by C. Peter Rydell and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1979 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theory of short-run market adjustments to exogenous demand shifts that is consistent with evidence from the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE). It is argued that (1) a 1.0 percent shift in rental demand leads to a rent change of only 0.26 percent, whereas capital value can change as much as 5.0 percent; and (2) landlords derive capital value in a tightening market primarily from decreased vacancy loss (because of monopolistic competition among themselves) rather than from increased nominal rent. Using HASE data, the theory predicts that a housing allowance program would cause short-run rent increases of 0.6 to 1.0 percent and capital value increases of 1.6 to 6.5 percent, depending on the size and duration of allowance-induced demand shifts.
Download or read book Proceedings of the General Design Review of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment Held June 25 27 1973 at the Rand Corporation Washington D C written by General Design Review of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplemental Design Papers for the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Price Effects of a Housing Allowance Program written by C. Peter Rydell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) was undertaken primarily to demonstrate how a full-scale housing allowance program would affect local housing markets; in particular, how it would affect the price of housing services. If program-induced price increases were large, they would disrupt the housing market and divert program subsidies from their intended recipients. In the outcome, however, price effects caused by the experimental program were so small as to be negligible. Section II examines the changes in the price of rental housing services that occurred in the experimental sites during the first three years of the allowance program. Section III determines that the allowance program had such a small effect on housing prices because it caused only a modest increase in housing demand and because housing supply responds to demand shifts with surprising ease. Section IV assesses the generalizability of the price effects found in the HASE sites, and discusses ways in which the results improve the understanding of housing-market behavior.
Download or read book The Housing Boom and Bust written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
Download or read book The Great Housing Experiment written by Joseph Friedman and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, policy experts and urban researchers evaluate the Experimental Housing Allowance Program (EHAP) involving over 25,000 households in the United States between 1963 and 1982. `This collection of essays, which in the aggregate represent an outstanding example of applied policy evaluation, will certainly be of interest to policy makers, social scientists, and the serious layman concerned with contemporary housing issues.' -- Perspective, January//February 1984 `...this book is a good example of the politics of housing research and the ways politics and political beliefs will override the tentative conclusions of academic research.' -- Environment and Planning, Vol 17 no 2, 1985
Download or read book The Economics of Housing Vouchers written by Joseph H. Friedman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economics of Housing Vouchers is a seven-chapter text that examines the housing choices of low-income families in two metropolitan areas, namely, Phoenix and Pittsburgh. Some of these households are offered a novel kind of housing subsidy, including a housing allowance or housing voucher, in an experimental framework designed to test this approach to demand-side housing assistance. Chapter 1 presents an overview of U.S. housing programs and the dimensions of the U.S. housing problem. Chapter 2 provides a simple microeconomic model that conceptualizes household behavior, as well as a summary of some of the extant evidence on housing demand. This chapter also estimates the housing demand models for the low-income population in the Demand Experiment, using housing expenditures to measure housing. Chapter 3 applies a hedonic index of housing services that abstracts from particular characteristics of the household or landlord that may affect rent and attempts to measure housing in a more objective manner. Chapter 4 describes a model of household behavior that leads to the methodology for estimating experimental effects. Chapter 5 repeats the analysis for Minimum Rent households, while Chapter 6 examines the effect of both kinds of Housing Gap allowance payment on the consumption of housing services. Lastly, Chapter 7 focuses on the implications of the experimental findings for housing policy. This chapter compares a housing allowance strategy with two other approaches, namely, a pure income-transfer approach and a construction-oriented approach. This book is of value to workers in housing policy, including economists, regional and other social scientists in academia, housing analysts, the Congress, housing lobby groups, and state and local government housing officials.
Download or read book Hot Property written by Rob Nijskens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the pressure on rental markets. These developments are posing major challenges for policymakers, central banks and other authorities responsible for ensuring financial stability, and economic well-being in general.This volume collects views from high-level policymakers and researchers, providing essential insights into these challenges, their impact on society, the economy and financial stability, and possible policy responses. The respective chapters address issues such as the popularity of cities, the question of a credit-fueled housing bubble, the role of housing supply frictions and potential policy solutions. Given its scope, the book offers a revealing read and valuable guide for everyone involved in practical policymaking for housing markets, mortgage credit and financial stability.
Download or read book Housing Vouchers for the Poor written by Raymond J. Struyk and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compendium of Research Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Price and Income Elasticities of Housing Demand written by Stephen K. Mayo and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing and the Financial Crisis written by Edward L. Glaeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn’t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no different from any other asset in its ability to climb and crash. Housing and the Financial Crisis looks at what happened to prices and construction both during and after the housing boom in different parts of the American housing market, accounting for why certain areas experienced less volatility than others. It then examines the causes of the boom and bust, including the availability of credit, the perceived risk reduction due to the securitization of mortgages, and the increase in lending from foreign sources. Finally, it examines a range of policies that might address some of the sources of recent instability.
Download or read book The Price Elasticity of the Long run Supply of New Housing Construction written by James R. Follain and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Can t You Afford a Home written by Josh Ryan-Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that to understand this crisis, we must examine a crucial paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. The interaction of private home ownership and a lightly regulated commercial banking system leads to a feedback cycle. Unlimited credit and money flows into an inherently finite supply of property, which causes rising house prices, declining home ownership, rising inequality and debt, stagnant growth and financial instability. Radical reforms are needed to break the cycle. This engaging and topical book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why they can’t find an affordable home, and what we can do about it.
