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Unpublished Paper
Housing Supply Dynamics under Rent Control: What Can Evictions Tell Us?
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  • Brian J. Asquith, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Upjohn Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5783-5557

Publication Date
5-1-2019
Abstract

Measuring how rent-controlled landlords change their housing supply in response to rent increases is difficult, because new construction is automatically exempt. This paper explores evictions as a barometer for landlords' willingness to return their units to market when prices increase using San Francisco data. I find no evidence that controlled landlords turnover existing tenants to return their units to market, and some evidence they instead withdraw individual units. I also look at other ways of exiting controls, and find that small landlords are 54 percent more likely to first apply to condo-convert when condo prices rise 5.4 percent.

Publisher
American Economic Association
DOI
10.1257/pandp.20191025
Issue Date
May 2019
Citation Information
Asquith, Brian J. 2019. "Housing Supply Dynamics under Rent Control: What Can Evictions Tell Us?" AEA Papers and Proceedings 109: 393-96. Pittsburgh, PA: American Economic Association.