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(a) What is the equilibrium rental for a one-bedroom

apartment?

(b) Suppose 200 new one-bedroom apartments are constructed.

What happens to the equilibrium rent?

(c) Suppose more people move into the town, increasing

the demand for one-bedroom apartments by

200 units at each price. What is the new equilibrium

price? (Assume the supply remains fixed at

1,200 units.)

10. Suppose a town decides to give a $100 subsidy to each

renter to help with rent payments. Thus if initially the

rent had been $1,000, with the $100 subsidy the out-ofpocket

cost to the renter of a one-bedroom apartment is

only $900. Using the data from Problem 9, answer each

of the following questions.

(a) Using the data from Problem 9, draw the demand

curve before the subsidy. How does this subsidy affect

the demand for one-bedroom apartments? Draw the

new demand curve after the subsidy is introduced.

(b) If the supply of apartments is fixed at 1,200 units,

what is the equilibrium price before the subsidy?

What is the equilibrium price after the subsidy?

(c) At the new equilibrium price, what is the out-ofpocket

cost to a renter for a one-bedroom apartment?

(d) Have renters benefited from the town’s rent subsidy?

Have apartment owners (suppliers)?

74 ∂ CHAPTER 3 DEMAND, SUPPLY, AND PRICE

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