Housing Finance Systems

Sock-Yong Phang is Professor of Economics at the Singapore Management University and holds a visiting appointment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics as well as a Commission Member of the Competition Commission of Singapore. She has spent most of her career studying and writing about housing and transportation economics.

1. Background and Overview PART I: WHY HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEMS MATTER 2. Affordable Housing 3. Market Failures PART II: REVIEW OF HOUSING POLICY INSTRUMENTS 4. Taxes and Subsidies 5. Housing Market Regulation 6. Regulation of Housing Finance 7. Housing Institutions 8. Public Private Partnerships PART III: HOUSING BUBBLES, CRASHES AND POLICY 9. From Housing Cycles to Financial Crises 10. Policy Response to Housing Booms PART IV: GOVERNMENT FAILURES 11. Unintended Consequences of Housing Policy 12. Regulatory Failure and Regulatory Capture PART V: COMPLEXITY AND RISKS 13. Smart Practices for Housing Finance Systems