Why have housing prices gone up?
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Raven E. Saks.
Contributors: Gyourko, Joseph E., 1956-; Saks, Raven E.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11129; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11129.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Housing -- Prices -- United States -- Econometric models.; Housing policy -- United States.; Building laws -- United States.
Description: "Since 1950, housing prices have risen regularly by almost two percent per year.  Between 1950 and 1970, this increase reflects rising housing quality and construction costs.  Since 1970, this increase reflects the increasing difficulty of obtaining regulatory approval for building new homes.  In this paper, we present a simple model of regulatory approval that suggests a number of explanations for this change including changing judicial tastes, decreasing ability to bribe regulators, rising incomes and greater tastes for amenities, and improvements in the ability of homeowners to organize and influence local decisions.  Our preliminary evidence suggests that there was a significant increase in the ability of local residents to block new projects and a change of cities from urban growth machines to homeowners' cooperatives"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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