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Do local governments tax homeowner communities differently?

Roland Füss, Oliver Lerbs, Alois Weigand

Real Estate Economics > 52 > 2 > 401 - 433

This article investigates whether and how strongly the share of homeowners in a community affects residential property taxation by local governments. Different from renters, homeowners bear the full property tax burden, irrespective of local market conditions, and the tax is more salient to them. “Homeowner communities” may hence oppose high property taxes in order to protect their housing wealth...

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Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants' homeownership

Xueying Mu, Can Cui, Junru Cui

Population, Space and Place > 29 > 5 > n/a - n/a

In the past two decades, migrants' homeownership has received increasing attention, as migrants have become increasingly heterogeneous in terms of socio‐economic status and choice of the destination city. However, how migrants move across the urban hierarchy and thereby affect their housing consumption has received scant attention. Using the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this study examines...

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Real estate investors and the U.S. housing recovery

Lauren Lambie‐Hanson, Wenli Li, Michael Slonkosky

Real Estate Economics > 50 > 6 > 1425 - 1461

U.S. house prices fell nearly 30% between 2006 and 2012. Meanwhile, homeownership rates declined as mortgage credit supply tightened and investors bought up properties. Although nationally house prices recovered to prebust levels by 2016, homeownership rates declined through mid‐2016, as investors, particularly those purchasing through corporations, gained market share. By exploiting heterogeneity...

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Is the left right? The creeping embourgeoisement of social democracy through homeownership

SINISA HADZIABDIC, SEBASTIAN KOHL

European Journal of Political Research > 61 > 4 > 930 - 951

Recent decades have been marked by the rise of populism, the emergence of New Labour and decline of social democratic parties. The dominant explanation for these trends is a shift in cultural attitudes but leaves open where such a sudden shift comes from. Advancing recent cross‐sectional work on the political economy of housing, this paper suggests that slow‐moving underlying processes as materialized...

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Homeownership and taxes: How the TCJA altered the tax code's treatment of housing

Brent W. Ambrose, Patric H. Hendershott, David C. Ling, Gary A. McGill

Real Estate Economics > 50 > 5 > 1167 - 1200

The federal government has long promoted homeownership through various provisions in the US income tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) renewed interest and debate about the treatment of housing via the tax code, particularly with respect to the mortgage interest deduction and the limitation on deductions for state and local taxes. We document the extent that the TCJA magnifies the long‐standing...

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Voting on urban land development

Matthias Wrede

Journal of Regional Science > 62 > 2 > 335 - 359

In this paper, we analyze several local referendums on land development and land‐use regulation in the City of Erlangen (Germany) between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for land development, we control for distance to the city center and density, employ a two‐way fixed‐effect model, and use spatial instruments. We also analyze the heterogeneity...

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Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups: Homeownership in Canada, 1981 to 2016

Yue Yuan, Jiaxin Gu, Xin Guo, Yushu Zhu, more

Population, Space and Place > 28 > 1 > n/a - n/a

Methodological advances in demographic research, especially age‐period‐cohort (APC) analysis, primarily focus on developing new models yet often fail to consider practical concerns in empirical analysis. We propose a mixed approach that integrates multiple data imputation and structural change analysis in time series so that scholars can (i) construct pseudo age groups based on more coarsely grouped...

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Housing uncertainty: socio-economic inequality and forex loans trajectories in the Bosnian housing market

Zaira T. Lofranco

Critical Housing Analysis > 2022 > 9 > 1 > 87-97

This article explores the nexus between the financialisation of housing and socio-economic inequality in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In this context, since the post-war economic reforms, driven by deindustrialisation, the precarisation of labour, and dependent financialisation, housing loans have become a ‘privilege’ for a restricted group of people with high and stable incomes. Instead, the housing...

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Housing quantum and Innovative Building Systems in South Africa - the affordability perspective for 2020

Emmanuel Kabundu, Sijekula Mbanga, Brink Botha, Gerrit Crafford

Critical Housing Analysis > 2022 > 9 > 2 > 18-29

The adoption of innovative building technologies (IBTs) and social welfare policies in South Africa has facilitated an increase in decent homeownership among low-income groups, thus improving their quality of life. However, due to the escalating costs of building materials, the capital and lifecycle costs of implementing these technologies may no longer be affordable. This research aims to provide...

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The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

Cody Hochstenbach, Rowan Arundel

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers > 46 > 4 > 973 - 994

Across countries, the position of young adults on the housing market has worsened over the past decade. Young adults’ decreasing access to homeownership has garnered particular attention. Most studies analysing young adults’ housing market entry focus on micro‐level determinants or national‐level patterns and trends. This paper adds an important perspective by focusing on spatial variations within...

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The dynamics of gender in the intergenerational transmission of homeownership: A case study of young couples in Shanghai

Junru Cui, Can Cui, Richard Ronald, Shan Yu, more

Population, Space and Place > 27 > 6 > n/a - n/a

Parental support has become increasingly important to the housing opportunities of young Chinese households. The gender dynamics of support practices, however, have not been well understood. Drawing on a survey of Shanghai households, this study investigates the role of parents in shaping the housing outcomes of young couples, focusing on gender differences in intergenerational transmissions. Employing...

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The Case of Cubans: Racial Inequality in U.S. Homeownership and Home Values

Brandon P. Martinez

Sociological Forum > 36 > 1 > 181 - 205

Prior research finds that human capital may explain racial housing inequality, whereas others note the historical role that race played in creating unequal housing conditions. This study uses the case of Cubans in the United States to examine whether human capital explains Black–White housing inequalities, or if they are a result of nativity/cohort differences—a proxy for the federal policies that...

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Low‐Income Homeownership and the Role of State Subsidies: A Comparative Analysis of Mortgage Outcomes

Erik Hembre, Stephanie Moulton, Matthew Record

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management > 40 > 1 > 78 - 106

Between the late 1970s through 2013, state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) financed nearly $300 billion in mortgages to low‐ and moderate‐income first‐time homebuyers. Descriptive evidence indicates that HFAs help households retain their homes at higher rates than similar households purchasing homes in the private mortgage market. Using a matched sample of HFA originations between 2005 and 2014, we...

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Millennials’ Future Homeownership and the Role of Student Loan Debt

Travis P. Mountain, Xiang Cao, Namhoon Kim, Michael S. Gutter

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal > 49 > 1 > 5 - 23

The financial burden of student loans on individuals in the Millennial generation is a serious issue. We investigated the effect this financial burden has on not only current homeownership but also the expectations and timing for future homeownership. The data came from the 2016 UF/VT Millennial Housing and Student Debt Survey of 1,327 young adults aged 19 to 35. We used a logistic regression model...

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Exploring young Europeans’ homeownership opportunities

Caroline Dewilde

Critical Housing Analysis > 2020 > 7 > 1 > 86-102

Even before the 2008/9-crisis, and certainly after, trends in labour markets combined with housing and mortgage market developments made it more difficult for each new cohort of young Europeans (25-34) to complete the transition to ‘residential independence’, and to homeownership in particular. Using EU-SILC-data (2005-2018), I find that young adults’ homeownership opportunities have indeed declined...

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The Limits of Homeownership: Racial Capitalism, Black Wealth, and the Appreciation Gap in Atlanta

Scott N. Markley, Taylor J. Hafley, Coleman A. Allums, Steven R. Holloway, more

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research > 44 > 2 > 310 - 328

In the wake of the 2007–08 housing crash, the Black–white wealth gap reached a staggering 20 to 1. Since then, a growing chorus of influential voices has proposed measures to increase the Black homeownership rate as a means to narrow the gap. Others, however, have argued that the uneven racial geography of home price appreciation necessarily restricts the degree to which Black households, in the aggregate,...

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A Tale of Two Markets: Unequal Access to Private Property in a South African City

Lochner Marais, Bankole Awuzie, Jan Cloete, Mark Napier, more

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie > 111 > 1 > 80 - 98

In line with international trends, South Africa’s post‐apartheid government has embarked on a housing policy that emphasises asset building. Homeownership has become a dominant policy for assisting the historically disadvantaged Black population. This paper looks at two property markets in Mangaung, a metropolitan municipality that includes Bloemfontein. We analysed property activity on 2,545 residential...

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Intergenerational Differences in Income and Wealth: Evidence from Britain

Jonathan Cribb

Fiscal Studies > 40 > 3 > 275 - 299

How do average levels of income and wealth differ in Britain for those born between the 1930s and 1980s? Those in the 1980s cohort are the first post‐war generation not to have higher median incomes in their early 30s than those born a decade earlier, though they have much higher incomes than those born in the 1960s and earlier. Median wealth for those in the 1980s cohort is 20 per cent lower in their...

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Are American homeowners more satisfied with their lives than renters?

Masanori Kuroki

International Journal of Consumer Studies > 43 > 6 > 536 - 548

Researchers often find that homeownership is not associated with life satisfaction in the United States. Using the 2009–2010 Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, this study examines whether homeowners are more satisfied with their lives than renters in the following eight states: Alabama, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and Wisconsin. A positive relationship...

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Exploring the determinants of residential satisfaction in public rental housing in China: a case study of Chongqing

Xiaolong Gan, Jian Zuo, Emma Baker, Ruidong Chang, more

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment > 2019 > 34 > 3 > 869-895

This research examines residential satisfaction in a large Public Rental Housing (PRH) program in the developing municipality of Chongqing, a city located in western China. Twenty-three critical factors were identified through intensive literature review and incorporated into a large-sample survey of eight residential estates of PRH in Chongqing. The survey data were analysed using factor analysis,...

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Do local governments tax homeowner communities differently?

Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants' homeownership

Real estate investors and the U.S. housing recovery

Is the left right? The creeping embourgeoisement of social democracy through homeownership

Homeownership and taxes: How the TCJA altered the tax code's treatment of housing

Voting on urban land development

Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups: Homeownership in Canada, 1981 to 2016

Housing uncertainty: socio-economic inequality and forex loans trajectories in the Bosnian housing market

Housing quantum and Innovative Building Systems in South Africa - the affordability perspective for 2020

The unequal geography of declining young adult homeownership: Divides across age, class, and space

The dynamics of gender in the intergenerational transmission of homeownership: A case study of young couples in Shanghai

The Case of Cubans: Racial Inequality in U.S. Homeownership and Home Values

Low‐Income Homeownership and the Role of State Subsidies: A Comparative Analysis of Mortgage Outcomes

Millennials’ Future Homeownership and the Role of Student Loan Debt

Exploring young Europeans’ homeownership opportunities

The Limits of Homeownership: Racial Capitalism, Black Wealth, and the Appreciation Gap in Atlanta

A Tale of Two Markets: Unequal Access to Private Property in a South African City

Intergenerational Differences in Income and Wealth: Evidence from Britain

Are American homeowners more satisfied with their lives than renters?

Exploring the determinants of residential satisfaction in public rental housing in China: a case study of Chongqing

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