5 research idea notes tagged “housing”. Read them as Markdown, JSON or an Atom feed.
Institutional investors appear on 151 recent papers, almost all about stock ownership; only 6 institutional-investor papers carry a housing or rent keyword. Funds now own large numbers of single-family homes and apartments in the US, Spain and elsewhere, and several governments want to restrict them. Do they raise rents, improve maintenance, or both?
Papers in the last 30 days — institutional investors: 9 · housing market: 3
Housing supply, land use regulation and upzoning appear on 48 recent papers in the economics journals. Cities from Auckland to Minneapolis and states from California to Oregon have loosened zoning in the last decade. How many extra homes did the reforms produce, where, and did rents respond?
Tourism appears on 130 recent papers across the finance, economics and management journals, but only 11 of them carry an overtourism, housing, short-term-rental, resident or tax keyword. Cities from Barcelona to Kyoto are capping short-term rentals and taxing visitors. Do the measures lower rents, and what do they cost in jobs?
Papers in the last 30 days — tourism: 2 · overtourism: 2
Immigration and migrant workers appear on 141 recent papers, mostly in economics, with 42 in July–September 2026 against about 30 per quarter before. Only 18 carry a housing, rent or house-price keyword. Housing costs are now the loudest argument in immigration politics. How much of rent growth do arrivals explain, and how much is a lack of building?
Papers in the last 30 days — immigration: 2 · housing market: 3
Property rights appear on 42 recent papers and land tenure and land rights on 13, mostly in economics. Countries are digitizing land registries and using satellite imagery to map parcels. Does a digital title change credit, investment and disputes more than a paper one, and who loses when the map is wrong?
Papers in the last 30 days — land tenure: 2 · land rights: 1
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “housing”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/housing
@misc{scholar4ai-ideas-tags-housing,
author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research ideas tagged “housing”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/housing}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}