Are Private Markets and Filtering a Viable Source of Low-Income Housing? Estimates from a “Repeat Income” Model

Forthcoming: American Economic Review Are Private Markets and Filtering a Viable Source of Low-Income Housing? Estimates from a “Repeat Income” Model June, 2013

While filtering has long been considered the primary mechanism by which markets supply lowincome housing, direct estimates of that process have been absent. This has contributed to doubts about the viability of markets and to misplaced policy. I fill this gap by estimating a “repeat income” model using 1985-2011 panel data. Real annual filtering rates are faster for rental housing (2.5 percent)...

Evaluation of Public Servants’ Acceptability of Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for Low-Income Public Servants in Akure, Nigeria

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Housing Finance: The Role of the Private Sector in Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for the Low-Income in Nigeria

Events in the building industry in Nigeria in the last decade show the important role the private sector played in housingfinance. With the advent of the public-private partnership concept in almost every sector of the socio-economic spheresof the nation, the role of the private sector in housing finance cannot be over-emphasized. This paper clearly states thatthe low-income public servants do ...

The Development of Low Income Urban Housing Markets: a Case Study of the Republic of Botswana

Low-Income Housing Development and Crime

This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on local crime. We take advantage of changes in the formula used to determine the eligibility of census tracts for Qualified Census Tract (QCT) status, which affects the size of the tax credits developers receive for building lowincome housing. QCT status attracts re...