Housing Quality and Tenure Choice in Bogota

Abstract

Furthermore, we estimate price and income elasticities coefficients that quantify the households' dwelling quality response to price and income variation. Thus, a 1% increase in prices reduces the average dwelling quality in 0.16% for the homeowners and 0.25% for the renters, whereas a 1% increase in permanent income increases the average dwelling quality in 0.08% both for homeowners and renters.