pharringtonp19/housing-and-homelessness

Economic Seminar Course on Housing and Homelessness

The Economics of Housing and Homelessness

This sophmore tutorial will focus on issues related to housing for low-income individuals and families. It will consider both macroeconomic factors relating to the supply of housing, as well as microeconomic factors concerning housing stability and insecurity such as the role of legal aid in preventing evictions. While focused in nature, the seminar will also touch on issues related to incarceration, health care, and the opioid epidemic as they relate to housing. Given the large number of housing policies introduced in the wake of the pandemic, this seminar should be a fruitful starting point for those thinking of writing a senior thesis.

housing-and-homelessness's Issues

Impact on Supply

The US study found that building 100 new market-rate dwellings ultimately leads to up to 70 people moving out of below-median income neighbourhoods, and up to 40 moving out of the poorest fifth. Those numbers don’t budge even if the new housing is priced towards the top end of the market.

• Housing Research Note 10 The affordability impacts of new housing supply: A summary of recent research
• https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1325&context=up_workingpapers
• https://www.urbanlab.ibf.uu.se/urban-facts/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119022001048?dgcid=rss_sd_all

Code

• Gautreaux test

PTI

• By contrast, upper tier programs tend to be indirect, with their fiscal impact relatively invisible - Modern Housing for America : Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
• How should we define shortages? "The U.S. has long been in the thralls of an affordable housing crisis, with a shortage of more than 7 million rental homes for people living at or below the federal poverty line"

Outside Speakers

• Someone who can talk about the tax data section in "The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment"

Datasets

• the American Housing Survey Metropolitan Data series of the US Census Bureau
• HMDA

Additional Papers

    \item Can Individual Student Supports Improve Economic Outcomes for Children in High Poverty Schools? - Goldman et al. (2023)
    \item The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux - \href{https://robcollinson.github.io/RobWebsite/ccs_gautreaux_extendedabstract.pdf}{Chyn and Collinson (2023)}
    \item Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolitions on Children - \href{https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161352}{Chyn (2018)}

Mortages

• US UK Comparison

Additional Classes

• Intergovernmental challenges
• Private market solutions

Additional Papers

• Location, Location, Location