The goal of this project is to assess whether the relationship between rent control policies and housing policy preferences (“NIMBYism”) is moderated by income. Building on a prior survey of tenants in Berlin, I am using the HMUI funds to obtain fine-grained data on local-level incomes. In the next step, I then examine whether the effect a recent Berlin rent control law varies with the socio-economic makeup of the neighborhood.
Researcher: Hanno Hilbig