• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Supply shock versus demand shock: The local effects of new housing in low-income areas
  • Contributor: Asquith, Brian J. [Author]; Mast, Evan [Author]; Reed, Davin [Author]
  • imprint: Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2019
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.17848/wp19-316
  • Keywords: gentrification ; R31 ; amenities ; R23 ; housing affordability ; housing supply ; R21
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  • Description: We study the local effects of new market-rate housing in low-income areas using microdata on large apartment buildings, rents, and migration. New buildings decrease nearby rents by 5 to 7 percent relative to locations slightly farther away or developed later, and they increase in-migration from low-income areas. Results are driven by a large supply effect - we show that new buildings absorb many high-income households - that overwhelms any offsetting endogenous amenity effect. The latter may be small because most new buildings go into already-changing areas. Contrary to common concerns, new buildings slow local rent increases rather than initiate or accelerate them.
  • Access State: Open Access