Abstract

Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from eviction, and rental housing rationing laws across more than 15 countries and 100 years. This long-run perspective allows for inquiring about the dynamic effects of rent control on the rise of homeownership as the dominant tenure during the twentieth century. We find that both rent regulation and rationing measures were followed by increases of homeownership and decreases of private rentals. We suggest that homeownership was not just produced by generous subsidies or the homeownership dream, but also through the push-effect of regulation crowding out rental units.

摘要

自 2008-2009 年全球金融危机以来，私人租赁市场变得越来越重要，租金管制又回到了政治议程上。然而，与房屋所有权和公共住房相比，它们受到住房学者的关注较少。本文介绍了 15 个国家 100 多年来私人租赁立法发展的新数据，这些立法基于租​​金控制的内容编码、保护租户免遭驱逐和出租房屋配给法。这种长期的观点允许探究租金控制对房屋所有权在 20 世纪作为主要保有权的兴起的动态影响。我们发现，租金管制和配给措施都伴随着房屋拥有率的增加和私人租金的减少。