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Covid-19 and Housing

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit the world at breakneck speed and put it on pause periodically more than two years ago. This disruptive and unprecedented event affects all facets of society. Many direct effects of COVID-19 are easily observable, such as infection rates, death rates, quarantine at home, telecommuting, travel restrictions, online teaching, web conferencing, and supply chain disruptions. COVID-19-related research is mainly dominated by public health and medical studies, while the socio-economic implications of COVID-19 are under-researched.

Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the housing sector and relevant stakeholders can be of significant importance for governments, policymakers, investors, developers, and owner-occupiers. After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wide range of observations and data have been accumulated. These data contain valuable information. It is now an opportune time to analyze these data to reveal systematically the lessons learned from the past so that we can better prepare ourselves for the future.

In view of the above, this Special Issue in the Journal of Housing and The Built Environment is dedicated to research on COVID-19 and housing. It offers a platform to share the latest research findings on how COVID-19 affects different aspects of the housing sector and relevant stakeholders, especially those with profound theoretical, methodological, and policy/practical implications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the long- and/or short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on:

1. trends of housing prices, rents, transaction volume, liquidity, and volatility.

2. regional dispersion of housing market performances

3. the preferences of housing consumers and investors

4. the pricing of housing attributes

5. housing affordability issues

6. the perceived risk of housing investment

7. behavioral anomalies in the housing markets

8. housing market before and after the availability of vaccines

9. global and local housing-related responses to COVID-19

10. housing design, maintenance, and management

Guest editors: Linchuan Yang, Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University, China, yanglc0125@swjtu.edu.cn

Lennon H.T. Choy, Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong, lennonchoy@hku.hk

K.W. Chau, Professor at The University of Hong Kong, hrrbckw@hku.hk

Expected No. of papers: 10-20 papers

Editors

  • Linchuan Yang Linchuan Yang , 

    Linchuan Yang

    Linchuan Yang is Professor in the Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), China. He received PhD and MPhil degrees from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), as well as a bachelor's degree of engineering and a bachelor's degree of science from Xiamen University (XMU), China. His research interests include Transport/Urban Economics, Transport Geography, Travel Behavior, and Transport Planning.

  • Lennon H. T. Choy Lennon H. T. Choy  &

    Lennon H. T. Choy

    Lennon is an Associate Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance at The University of Hong Kong. His principal research interests are in institutional analysis and urban studies. He held visiting faculty positions at the Law School and the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago, and the Centre for New Institutional Social Sciences at the Washington University in St. Louis. Lennon has published in the Journal of Law & Economics, Habitat International, Land Use Policy, Cities and Urban Studies etc. Lennon is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

  • Kwong Wing Chau Kwong Wing Chau

    Kwong Wing Chau

    Dr K. W. Chau is currently Chair Professor of Real Estate and Construction and Director of the Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research at The University of Hong Kong. His main areas of research include real estate finance and economics, real estate price index and urban analysis. Most of his works are empirical studies with implications for policy makers and practitioners. He has published over 100 journal papers including the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Urban Studies, Energy Policy, Building and Environment, Environment and Planning B and Habitat International.

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