Coming soon: @JHPE 5(1): Special Issue on the Political Economy of Housing. With articles by Ryan Hübert 🏳️‍🌈, Michael Hankinson, @maxwellBPalmer, Martin Vinæs Larsen, Clayton Nall, @davidfoster0, Sofia Borushkina, Chris Elmendorf, Stan Oklobdzija, B Pablo Montagnes, Aleksei Kiselev, Niels Nyholt, among others.

This special issue of JPIPE on The PE of Housing was based on an earlier conference co-hosted by PIPE Collaborative and USC Lusk Center at USC Price School. Congrats to Jeff Jenkins and Jorge De la Roca for the great job.

Laying Foundations: Momentum Continues for Housing Supply Reforms in 2024 | Mercatus Center mercatus.org/research/polic…

Lots of great papers in the new JPIPE symposium on the political economy of housing. Here's a quick 🧵 on a few of my favorites. 1/14 nowpublishers.com/PIP

Now out: JPIPE 5(1): special issue on The PE of Housing. Articles by Ryan Hübert 🏳️‍🌈, Michael Hankinson, @maxwellBPalmer, Martin Vinæs Larsen, Clayton Nall, @davidfoster0, Sofia Borushkina, Chris Elmendorf, Stan Oklobdzija, B Pablo Montagnes, Aleksei Kiselev, Niels Nyholt, and others. nowpublishers.com/PIP

New in JPIPE: A. Cuttner, Ryan Hübert 🏳️‍🌈 & B Pablo Montagnes find via a formal model -- contrary to common belief -- that public meetings dominated by NIMBY opponents can increase housing supply by fostering compromise projects. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: Martin Vinæs Larsen & Niels Nyholt use a vignette survey experiment to explore why Danish citizens oppose the construction of apartment buildings and find limited evidence that this opposition stems from concerns over congestion or out- group bias. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: Michael Hankinson, A. Magazinnik & Anna Weissman find that construction union reps are more likely to attend public meetings to advocate for favorable labor agreements when the expected profitability of new housing developments is high. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: K. Einstein & Maxwell Palmer focus on rental housing with subsidized rents and find that affordable housing is a surprisingly heterogeneous good, which often comes with a number of exclusionary restrictions attached. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: Chris Elmendorf, Clayton Nall & Stan Oklobdzija find in a national survey of 5,000 urban and suburban voters that homeowners and renters alike support price controls, restrictions on Wall Street buyers, and subsidized affordable housing. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: @davidfoster0 & Joseph Warren show via a formal model how existing institutions undermotivate politicians to expend effort to pursue effective homelessness programs -- even with strong voter support. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

New in JPIPE: Sofia Borushkina & Aleksei Kiselev find -- using Moscow as a case -- that allowing the construction of smaller and cheaper housing also leads to increased homogeneity. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

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