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1 post published by Nathan Lauster during August 2025| Home: Free Sociology!
1 post published by Nathan Lauster during August 2025| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. What if zoning was responsive to underlying demand to live in an area? That is, rather than reserving parts of the landscape for t…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. The main housing problem in Canada is that there is not enough of it. We can see this by looking at prices and rents, but also by …| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. Housing demand from external migration receives outsized attention in the public discussion. We take a recent Statistics Canada re…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. In our new paper “The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Ca…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted on MountainMath. Evidence suggests a clear correlation between rents and rates of homelessness in the USA. The simplest interpretation is that ho…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted on MountainMath. Today the Globe and Mail published an opinion piece about continued flows of “foreign money” in B.C. real estate. Broadly this i…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath Who would benefit from dramatically expanding the supply of housing in the market? How would such an expansion address housing ne…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath How does owning or renting relate to household independence across the life course? How have these relationships changed over recent history? We use Census data from 1981-2021 to check in on historical relationships between age, tenure, and household composition. From these we develop a couple of … Continue reading Tenure and Household Independence across the Life Course, 1981-2021| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath New data supports a common theme: Housing costs seem to be increasingly important as a determinant of long-distance migration, adding to their traditional importance within short-distance moves. But there are still some interesting caveats. We have a look at the data, compare it to what we … Continue reading Migration and Housing Costs| Home: Free Sociology!
(Joint with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath) The concepts of family and household frequently get mixed up in the broader housing discourse. We have attempted to explain how these concepts differ, their various statistical constructions, and why it matters in the past. But these explanations can quickly turn quite abstract, so we wanted … Continue reading Doubling Up – Distinguishing Families and Households| Home: Free Sociology!
(Joint with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath) Is there room for new housing? There are lots of ways to try and get at this question, driven by a variety of different value calcula…| Home: Free Sociology!
