Rent Control and The Supply of Housing Services: The Brookline Massachusetts Experience

Raymond Jackson

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1993, vol. 52, issue 4, 467-475

Abstract: Abstract. The hypothesis that the short‐run and long‐run supply of housing services is unaffected by rent control is examined. It has been asserted that total housing services may remain unchanged when tenant supplied services are included and that capital improvements may return to normal after the initial loss in property values. Using data on health code violations and building permits from a town in metropolitan Boston, the analysis concludes that rent control diminishes the total supply of housing services in the short‐run and reduces capital expenditures to maintain and improve housing services in the long‐run.

Date: 1993
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