Owner-Occupied Housing and Wealth Inequality

Summary:
On VoxEU, Gianni La Cava summarizes his research on the secular rise in the housing share of US income. In the US national accounts, income accruing to the housing sector is measured as ‘net housing capital income’, or simply, net rental income (i.e. gross rents less housing costs, such as depreciation and property taxes). This measure includes rental income going to both owner-occupiers (imputed rent) and landlords (market rent). The very detailed nature of the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ regional economic accounts allows for similar estimates of housing capital income to be constructed for each US state spanning several decades. … The owner-occupier share of aggregate income has risen from just under 2% in 1950 to close to 5% in 2014 … . The share of income going to landlords (i.e. market rent) has also doubled in the post-war era. But, in aggregate, the effect of imputed rent is larger … because there are nearly twice as many home owners as renters in the US economy. … … the long-run rise in the housing capital income share is fully concentrated in states that face housing supply constraints.

Topics:
Dirk Niepelt considers the following as important: Capital income, housing, Imputed rent, Income inequality, Land price, Notes, Owner-occupier, Rent, wealth, Wealth inequality, Zoning regulation

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