Replication Data for: Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?

Affordable housing is a key challenge of the 21st century. A pivotal driver of growing housing prices is residents' opposition to construction, a phenomenon known as NIMBYism (``Not In My Backyard''). To make housing more affordable, governments are increasingly implementing rent control policies. In this paper, we ask whether rent control---beyond its impact on the housing market---has repercussions for tenant NIMBYism. We study Berlin, which recently passed a sweeping rent control law. Leveraging two discontinuities in the policy, we show that rent control made tenants \textit{less} NIMBY. Specifically, tenants in rent controlled apartments became more likely to approve of local-level construction and immigration. We argue that the decline in NIMBYism is likely due to an economic channel. In the context of relatively expensive new housing, tenants in urban centers associate construction and immigration with displacement pressures and gentrification. Rent control alleviates these concerns by providing financial and residential security.