The Alrov Institute for Real Estate Research at Tel Aviv University, ESCP Business School, and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate are jointly organizing a fourth conference on low-income housing supply, related financing tools, and housing affordability.  The selection committee is interested in economics and policy research on topics including housing affordability, inequality, house price and rent dynamics, rent control, low-income housing supply and demand, private-public partnerships including (but not limited to) the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) programs, mortgage and housing finance system design and performance to support affordable housing, land use regulation and entitlements, demographic factors, homelessness, urban stratification, population mobility and immigration, and policy at all levels of government. 

The conference is planned for June 3 and 4, 2025 at ESCP Business School, Madrid campus (Spain).   A day trip is tentatively planned for June 2, 2025. A follow up academic meeting is planned at Tel Aviv University in 2026.

Those interested in presenting a research paper at the Madrid conference should send a PDF of their paper or a detailed abstract to affordable.housing@escp.eu by March 1, 2025.  Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 15, 2025. The conference sponsors will pay up to 3-day lodging expenses for one author of each accepted paper. Electronic copies of the conference papers will be made available at the conference website.

Conference Organizing Committee:

Danny Ben-Shahar, Tel Aviv University

Stuart A. Gabriel, UCLA

Jaime P. Luque, ESCP Business Schoolaffordable.housing@escp.eu