Replication Data for: When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism

How does scale affect policy support? An exit poll of 1,660 voters and a national survey of over 3,000 respondents measure how support for housing varies between the city- and neighborhood-scale. While homeowners are sensitive to housing's proximity, renters typically do not express NIMBYism (“Not In My Back Yard”). However, in high-rent cities, renters exhibit NIMBYism on par with homeowners, despite supporting large increases in housing citywide. These scale-dependent preferences not only help explain the affordability crisis, but show how institutions can undersupply even widely supported public goods. When preferences are scale-dependent, the scale of decision making matters.