Panel: New Market-Rate Development
(Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy)

Thursday, November 7, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
I.M Pei Tower: 2nd Floor, Tower Court B (Sheraton Denver Downtown)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Organizer:  Xiaodi Li, New York University
Panel Chair:  Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
Discussants:  Devin Bunten, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Paavo Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles

Many economists believe new market-rate development is critical to keep housing affordable, due to the laws of supply and demand. However, community members express concerns that new market-rate development and its high-income residents might drive up housing demand in the neighborhood, which leads to growing housing prices, gentrification, and displacement. How institutional design affects new market-rate development? What else affects new market-rate development? What is the impact of new market-rate development? Does it solve the housing affordability issue? Does it displace low-income residents? Does it trigger gentrification? This session explores those questions from perspectives of economists, social scientists, and urban planners.


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Michael Hankinson, Baruch College, City University of New York and Asya Magazinnik, Princeton University



The Effect of New Market-Rate Housing Construction on the Low-Income Housing Market
Evan Mast, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research



Do More Housing Units Reduce Nearby Rents?
Xiaodi Li, New York University




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