Residential displacement impacts the quality of life, health, and economic outlook for
households. Yet, there is little evidence on how housing policy works to prevent …

There is a growing debate about whether new housing units increase rents for immediately
surrounding apartments. Some argue new market-rate development produces a supply …

Major cities around the world are gentrifying as high-income newcomers drive up housing
prices and displace lower-income incumbent residents. Increasing the housing supply …

Urban densification is often advocated as one of the most desirable ways to develop
sustainable communities. However, gentrification scholars have criticized densification …

We study the local effects of new market-rate housing in low-income areas using microdata
on large apartment buildings, rents, and migration. New buildings decrease nearby rents by …

I estimate spillovers from new housing supply on house prices. To estimate these effects, I
use exogenous variation in supply induced by a housing subsidy implemented in middle …

Since the passage of AB 32 in 2006, the State of California has embarked on an ambitious
program to promote more sustainable communities in order to reduce greenhouse gas …

This report examines ways to evaluate housing affordability, identifies problems caused by
unaffordability, and describes affordable-accessible housing, which refers to lower priced …

Since the 1990s, the gentrification process in the US has diffused down the urban hierarchy
and to neighborhoods further from downtown. This paper focuses on one census tract in the …

In major cities throughout the United States and around the world, contentious debates over
housing policy frequently focus on the extent to which high-end housing developments are a …