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This paper extends the earlier analysis of Tucker [1987] and Quigley [1990] regarding the relationship between a city's homeless rate and the existence of rent controls. Performing WLS estimation on the logit of the homeless rate, this paper concludes that rent controls have the effect of lowering, not increasing, the homeless rate.
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This paper was supported in part by a Faculty Development Grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The author would like to thank Willis Sheftall and Richard Winstead for their helpful comments.
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Gissy, W.G. Rent controls and homeless rates. International Advances in Economic Research 3, 113–121 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295005
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