Government policies affecting housing supply, affordability, rental markets, and homelessness. Increasingly central to politics in countries facing affordability crises.
How should governments address housing affordability and supply?
Expand social housing, rent controls, and public land development
Deregulate planning and zoning to boost private supply; reduce government intervention in housing markets
Housing affordability crisis in most OECD countries; NIMBYism vs. YIMBY movements; rising homelessness