Ep 60: Housing Production and Rent Assistance Savings with Kevin Corinth

Housing scarcity is linked to higher rents and house prices, but it’s rarely connected to the cost and reach of safety net programs — and it should be. Kevin Corinth joins to share his research on how increasing housing production in supply-constrained cities can help the government serve many more households with rent assistance.

Show notes:

• Corinth, K., & Irvine, A. (2023). JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs. Journal of Urban Economics, 103572.
• Molloy, R., Nathanson, C. G., & Paciorek, A. (2022). Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location. Journal of Urban Economics, 129, 103427.
• Glaeser, E., & Gyourko, J. (2018). The economic implications of housing supply. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(1), 3-30.
• Episode 16 of UCLA Housing Voice, on Japanese housing policy with Jiro Yoshida.
• Episode 17 of UCLA Housing Voice, on housing vouchers with Rob Collinson. 
• Eriksen, M. D., & Rosenthal, S. S. (2010). Crowd out effects of place-based subsidized rental housing: New evidence from the LIHTC program. Journal of Public Economics, 94(11-12), 953-966.
• Episode 45 of UCLA Housing Voice, on the impact of Auckland’s upzoning with Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy.