Social policy or crowding-out? Tenant protection in comparative long-run perspective

Konstantin Kholodilin (), Sebastian Kohl, Yulia Prozorova () and Julien Licheron
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Abstract: In the shadow of homeownership and public housing, social policy through the regulation of private rental markets is a neglected and underestimated eld of social policy. This paper, therefore, presents unique new data on the development of private tenancy legislation through the binary coding of rent control, the protection of tenants from eviction, and rental housing rationing laws across more than 25 countries and 100 years. This long-run perspective reveals the dynamic eects of rent control on the rise of homeownership as the dominant tenure during the 20th century. We nd that both rent regulation and rationing legislation eectively increased homeownership, but only up to a certain threshold. We suggest that the short-term lure of an inexpensive social policy for tenants has led to the long-term marginalization of rental markets in many countries

Keywords: Homeownership; rent control; tenure security; housing rationing; dynamic panel data model. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 O18 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Economics / EC, October 2018, pages 1-31

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Journal Article: Social policy or crowding-out? Tenant protection in comparative long-run perspective (2023)
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