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The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical interest to urban economists and sociologists, as well as…

RR07-13: The effect of local land use regulations on housing markets has been the subject of extensive research and discussion among both urban economists and…

W06-3: Local governments frequently restrict multifamily housing by limiting the districts where it is allowed, creating procedural barriers to development, and…

W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…

Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…

W05-2: The property tax on housing is a major component of local government revenues and of consumers’ housing costs. This study uses newly available data from the 2001…

W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…

W03-1: The growing number of frail seniors in the U.S. has prompted considerable concern over the provision of long-term care. Seniors are living longer and staying…