It is now a conventional wisdom that artistic, bohemian, and gay populations increase housing values in the neighborhoods and communities they inhabit. But these groups are small, and the evidence of their effect on housing prices is anecdotal. We argue that artists, bohemians and gays through two kinds of mechanisms: aesthetic-amenity premium and a tolerance or open culture premium. To examine...

Planning of services for the elderly has become a focal point of policy interest in many countries, mainly as a result of significant trends toward an ageing population. Services for the elderly are in general designed for persons who are less capable to live independently in a social, financial and medical sense. Types of services for the elderly may be quite diverse, for example, sheltered ho...

Much of the macroeconomics literature dealing with wealth distribution has become abstracted from modeling housing explicitly. This paper investigates the properties of the wealth distribution and the portfolio composition regarding housing and equity holdings and their relationship to macroeconomic shocks. To this end, I construct a business cycle model in which agents differ in age, income, a...

The Family Options Study provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the troubling link between family homelessness and child maltreatment. The rigorous design uses multiple methods to probe the impact of housing interventions on family preservation and reunification and the underlying mechanisms. Results show that ending homelessness keeps families together; however, once separated, f...

Housing reform has been a key component in China's economic revitalization program initiated by the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping since 1978. By reforming the welfare housing system, the Chinese government aims at the removal of a burden (i.e., welfare housing) from state finance. At the same time, housing reform will stimulate changes in consumption, investment, and related industrial se...

Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to assets and other household data, collected as part of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) in 2004, to rank individuals according to a household socioeconomic index and to investigate whether this predicts access to the sanitation system or outcomes. PCA was used for determining wealth indices for 11,440 women in 10,500 households...

 Following the growing urbanization, choosing and providing housing has become one of the mos t important issues for planners as well as people. Developing a comprehensive program of housing needs complete identification and deep analysis of widespread dimensions of housing and factors affecting them. In the meantime, addressing housing indices, as the key planning tool forming its main thrus t...

Abstract We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects outlook for inflation USA. Housing held down overall 2021. Despite record growth private market-based measures of home rents, government-measured residential services was only 4% 12 months ending January 2022. After explaining mechanical cause this divergence, we estimate that, if past relationships hold, components Co...