USC Price School of Public Policy
Friday, February 23, 2024
308 Lewis Hall
Light breakfast: 8:15 to 9:00 am
Paper 1: 9:00-9:50 am
How Affordable Housing Can Exclude: The Political Economy of Subsidized Housing
Katherine Levine Einstein (Boston University) and Maxwell Palmer (Boston University)
Discussant: Lizhong Liu (USC Price)
Paper 2: 9:50-10:40 am
Understanding Opposition to Apartment Buildings
Martin Vinæs Larsen (Aarhus University) and Niels Nyholt (Aarhus University)
Discussant: Christian Redfearn (USC Price)
Break: 10:40-10:55 am
Paper 3: 10:55-11:45 am
Liability for Homelessness
David Foster (LSE) and Joseph Warren (University of Alaska, Anchorage)
Discussant: Odilon Câmara (USC Marshall)
Lunch (industry panel): 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Paper 4: 1:15-2:05 pm
Folk Economics and the Persistence of Political Opposition to New Housing
Christopher Elmendorf (UC-Davis), Clayton Nall (UCSB), and Stan Oklobdzija (Tulane University)
Discussant: Christian Grose (USC POIR & Price)
Paper 5: 2:05-2:55 pm
The Limits of Market-Rate Housing Supply Policy: The Role of Investors and Housing Homogeneity
Sofia Borushkina (Politecnico di Milano) and Aleksei Kiselev (European University Institute)
Discussant: Marco Giacoletti (USC Marshall)
Break: 2:55-3:10 pm
Paper 6: 3:10-4:00 pm
Local Interest Group Participation in the Housing Entitlement Process
Michael Hankinson (George Washington University), Asya Magazinnik (Hertie School), and Anna Weissman (UC-Berkeley)
Discussant: Andrii Parkhomenko (USC Marshall)
Paper 7: 4:00-4:50 pm
The Public Meeting Paradox: How NIMBY-Dominated Public Meetings Can Enable New Housing
Allison K. Cuttner (Emory University), Ryan Hübert (UC-Davis), and B. Pablo Montagnes (Emory University)
Discussant: Richard Green (USC Price & Marshall)
Dinner: 6:30 or 7:00 pm