Housing

In new research, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale find that the vast majority of the most populous cities in the United States do not directly notify renters of land-use hearings. Such hearings provide a forum for local members of the public to voice opinions about how land should be used for housing and other construction and inform the decisions of policymakers. The failure to directly notify renters about these hearings can skew the decision-making process—and the housing market— toward homeowners and exacerbate anti-development tendencies in land-use law.

Four economists discuss the trends in the global economy they are tracking in 2024

While the development of artificial intelligence has led to efficient business strategies, such as dynamic pricing, this new technology is vulnerable to collusion and consumer harm when companies share the same software through a central platform. Gabriele Bortolotti highlights the importance of antitrust enforcement in this domain for the second article in our series, using as a case study the RealPage class action lawsuit in the Seattle housing market.

A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria across the...

A conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Robert Shiller on his new book, Narrative Economics: "Economists do not study narratives systematically, but they shape the...

Until 2016, anonymous buyers could purchase US real estate in cash through shell companies without reporting their real identities. But that year a new...

We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...