Marion Steele

Marion Steele has a B.A (Econ) from Queen's and Ph'd from the University of Toronto. Her major research interest is in housing economics, and within that field her interests are broad, from policy issues to tenure choice, rental markets and price indexes.

Full CV

Publications 1997-

(For consultant reports, see CV.)

"Short Holds, the Distributions of First and Second Sales, and Bias in the Repeat Sales Price Index," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (with Richard Goy) 14: 133-154 (1997)

"Canadian Housing Allowances Inside and Outside the Welfare System," Canadian Public Policy--Analyse de Politiques XXIV, 2 1998, 209-232.

"Housing Allowances in the United States under Section 8 and in Other Countries: A Canadian Perspective," Urban Studies (January 2001)

“Do Sales Prices Overstate Underlying House Prices in Market Downturns? Evidence from the Canadian House Price Crash of 1991, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science (with Richard Goy) 19 4 (December, 2002) 333-345. pdf of “Do Sales Prices Overstate Underlying House Prices in Market Downturns? in its form just before publication

Unrefereed, invited publication in Canadian Housing and Renewal Association journal (note that the word “ineligible” close to the top of the third column is incorrect (it was inserted after the text was out of my hands)): “A Tax-Based Affordable Housing Program for Canada” Canadian Housing 22 3 (Fall, 2006) 31-38

“The Canadian Home Buyers’ Plan: Tax Expenditure, Tax Benefit and Policy Analysis,” Canadian Tax Journal 55 (2007) 1 1-30. A discussion of the paper is James Dawe’s Toronto Star business column http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/222616

Canadian Housing Allowances (galleys) Chapter Four in Peter Kemp (ed.) Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective The Policy Press, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK ( 2007). Requested changes to galleys are shown, with updating, including program changes and name changes in Changes If you’d like to order a copy, the publisher’s website https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1096

Building Affordable Rental Housing in Unaffordable Cities: A Canadian Low Income Housing Tax Credit (with François Des Rosiers) (2009) Commentary 289 (Toronto : C.D. Howe Institute) pp 21

Earlier version with tables giving selected items from the statement of operations of a LIHTC project and assumptions is here ; see pp. 39-41.

Also, paper on the two sector rental housing market forthcoming in the Canadian Tax Journal

Current research

See CV for more up-to-date list of current research

“Homeownership as Support for Families at Different Income Levels : Evidence from the Microdata,” presented to the Statistics Canada Socio-Economic Conference, Ottawa, May 2006

“Renter Residential Mobility, Income Change and Financial Strength, with Jason Dean, presented at the AREUEA meetings, Los Cabos, July, 2005

Fairly recent presentations to non-academic audiences

(See CV for presentations to scholarly audiences. )

On Canadian housing allowances, at a conference in Ottawa, June, 2006, organized by Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations, and in particular, by their lawyer, John Dickie: pdf of slides is Canadian Housing Allowances: Design and Impact

On the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, for a two part videoforum organized by the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association. Pdfs of slides: A Tax-based Affordable Housing Program for Canada Part 1 and A Tax-based Affordable Housing Program for Canada Part 2

msteele1@uoguelph.ca, or marionsteele@gmail.com

Phone:         519-824-4120 ext 35964
Fax:           519-763-8497
Office:        744 MacKinnon
Mail:          Department of Economics
 University of Guelph
 Guelph, Canada N1G 2W1
 
Usually on Wednesday or Thursday at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 455 Spadina Ave. Toronto
416-978-4382

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