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You can read a preprint (free) version of the article here:
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This suggests a substantial role for local government partisanship that goes beyond residents’ ideological views (though they are related) and also preexisting social housing levels.
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Oof not great
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Not to mention: You have a problem with the New York City Subway not being clean enough? Pulling funding isn't going to help.
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Try this www.nber.org/papers/w33584
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Yes, I think that's right
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So ... things are complicated, but I do think there is strong reason to believe that higher housing costs are *mostly* a product of higher incomes, but *also* that more housing supply can reduce those costs to some degree.
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I argue that "Higher housing costs may largely be a reflection of the fact that at least some people in a particular area have more income to pay for them." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Even so... I offer evidence that more housing is associated with less crowding & lower costs.
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Interestingly, we have a whole debate about this issue in this month's Housing Policy Debate journal!
Kirk McClure & Alex Schwartz make a similar claim as the above, suggesting that the housing problem isn't so much housing supply as it is the distribution of household incomes as compared to rents.
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I’m so sorry.
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This is what the USA Spending data tell us about per-capita spending by metro.
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You can also download the data here: datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/spen...
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We have launched some other related resources today — see the "recent findings" on this page here: www.urban.org/projects/inf... — that do some of that summing.
We were reluctant to do the summing on the interactive tool because we wanted to associate each program with a set of relevant indicators.
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Thanks!