Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?

• In Event: The Politics of Housing Policies

Brief Overview

Does rent control--by making tenants more likely to stay in their apartments--spark NIMBYism and thus exacerbate the housing crisis? We marshall evidence from Berlin and show that rent control, if anything, made tenants *less* NIMBY.

Authors

• Anselm Hager, Humboldt-University

• Hanno Hilbig, Harvard University