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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Housing supply"”.
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Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations
… construction costs and negatively impact housing production and affordability. In this study, I investigate the tension in the housing supply resulting from the adoption of the Stretch Energy Code by analyzing municipalities' staggered designation as Green Communities to identify the …
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Expanding the housing supply through conversions of the existing stock
… States despite the steady improvement in overall housing conditions throughout the postwar period. Households that face the greatest difficulty in gaining access to suitable housing are those with low-income, i.e. those in the market for low-cost rental housing. These households have difficulty in …
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Speeding up Housing Supply in Hong Kong through Land Readjustment
For over a decade, Hong Kong's housing has been ranked as the least affordable globally. “Pricy and cramped” living conditions have increasingly become a pressing social issue concerning the public at large. Explanations of this housing issue are multi-faceted, among which the most fundamental …
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Advances in spatial econometrics and the political economy of local housing supply
… elections and local petitions, influence local housing policies.
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Land value taxation as a mechanism to relieve housing supply constraints in Austin, Texas
… has been diminished; bureaucratic barriers to housing production increased costs, and necessitated subsidization in order to create affordable housing. In order to reenergize the city's ability to create an equitable city, we must reexamine our use of land-use regulations, tax policies, and …
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Industrial organization of housing supply : explaining spatial variation of home builder size in U.S.
The housing supply is affected by the market, regulation, land use, and capital. Research has revealed a strong variation between the supply sector and builders' behavior patterns. Understanding these variations will contribute not only to better performance of private homebuilders, but also to …
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The effect of elderly housing on the housing supply in McPherson, Reno, and Rice counties, Kansas
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 S25
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Evaluating the integration and use of automated housing supply mointoring systems for municipal housing policy and administration
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Systems of housing supply and housing production in Europe : a comparison of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany.
… the relationships between systems of housing supply and production outcomes. Itis focussed on three European countries: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany. These countries have very different systems of land and housing supply, especially in respect of the role of …
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Housing in European Metropolises: supply dynamics and planning frameworks in large Urban Areas of the EU
Europe’s housing affordability crisis presents significant territorial challenges, particularly as housing demand increasingly spills over from inner cities to surrounding municipalities at the metropolitan scale. This study addresses key policy questions regarding the coordination of housing …
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Effects of land policies and development strategies on housing : a case of Hong Kong
… thesis is to investigate the effects of land supply on housing prices in Hong Kong. Studies will be carried out to define whether there are any correlation between land supply, housing supply and residential property prices. In order to better understand Hong Kong's housing market, this study …
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Segregation, Mobility and Residential Location of Foreign Workers in Duesseldorf, West Germany
… foreign mobility processes in constrained urban housing markets, and the resulting residential distributions of Germans and foreigners in the city. Ethnic differences in locational preferences, discrimination, information biases, and economic power are viewed as the potential forces of divergent …
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Essays in Regional Economics
… and structural change. Chapter 4 estimates housing supply elasticities for Germany during the housing market boom period from 2012 to 2021. Using a theory-derived Bartik instrument that accounts for spatial linkages between labour and housing markets to construct local population shifts, it …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
… their local labor market productivity, their housing supply, and their offering of amenities.</p><p>I examine the impact of these spatial considerations on the dynamics of local labor markets and the national market to which they aggregate. First I study the patterns of location choice through …
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Housing demand, regional house prices and consumption
… for regional variation in the 2000-2012 housing and consumption boom and bust. Cities with a greater share of growing industries experienced larger housing demand shocks, larger house price increases from 2001-2006 and greater price declines from 2006-2011. Consistent with theory, price …
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The Graduate Student Anchored Project : a new approach to incentivizing multifamily development in the City of Boston
Despite a significant addition of new multifamily housing stock into Boston's residential rental market, Boston in 2014 faces a considerable shortage of middle income housing supply relative to demand. Both the supply shortage itself and the related city-wide prevailing high cost of residential …
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Essays on the interactions of local economies and their macroeconomic implications
… I document that the increase in the demand for housing explains the boom, through two channels. The construction channel occurs because housing is a durable good: hence there is a surge in the number of new houses and construction jobs. The house price channel occurs because the migrants' …
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Farm Status: Exploring Relational Dimensions of Rural Values and Character on Southern Vancouver Island, Canada
… face acute, conflicting challenges relating to housing supply and affordability, loss of agricultural land, and environmental change. On Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, grassroots organizations have formed around the ideas of preserving ‘rural character’ and maintaining ‘rural …
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Essays in real estate and finance
… safer borrowers. The second chapter shows that housing demand shocks from 2000-2006 are highly correlated the elasticity of housing supply in different regions, and explores the implications of this for research on the effects of housing prices. The third chapter, written with Gregory Howard, …
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