Housing Production Strategies
Description
This week we will examine a range of housing production strategies, many that involve public-private partnerships or incentives to deliver affordable housing. We’ll also talk about the Opportunity Zone program which leverages tax benefits to investors for investments in eligible underinvested neighborhoods.
Discussants
Rafi and Temka
Learning Goals
- Understand why governments might incentivize capital investment in distressed neighborhoods.
- Critically engage with policy debates regarding the benefits and costs of place-based capital incentives.
Readings
Schwartz
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 7