While conventional wisdom holds that renters do not participate in NIMBYism, and even welcome new development, recent research from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that renters frequently join the obstructionist bandwagon in expensive cities. Read more at The Atlantic's City Lab The research, authored by Michael Hankinson, can be found here #RealEstate #Harvard #Development #RentalPricing

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Bing Wang, associate professor in practice of real estate and the built environment, has been awarded a 2016 Best Paper Prize by the American Real Estate Society (ARES). Wang will be formally honored at the ARES annual conference in April 2017. Wang’s paper is entitled “Micro Housing as Urban Development Model in a Shared Economy,” dissecting development patterns of micro housing in the United States through the examination of pricing structure of micro‐housing developments,