Housing rents are a large share of household budgets and make contribution to overall inflation. Rent inflation rates for different types housing units sometimes diverge, even in the same neighborhoods. We estimate during 2013 2016 apartment outpaced detached United States by 0.76 percentage points annually after controlling location effects. These rent dynamics imply segmented market. They als...

A spatial region with K different footprints indicates that it has been visited by K different people. An adversary may be able to identify all these users, but will not know who was there at what time. This observation gives us a new direction to investigate location depersonalization in location-based services (LBSs). We propose to leverage users’ historical location samples, each being a foo...