AF Bostäder’s house allocation problem

Abstract: This paper evaluates the practicality and efficiency of different solutions to the house allocation problem faced by the company providing housing for students at Lund University. Both static and dynamic mechanisms are considered. A series of simulations show that the problem could be solved more efficiently by altering the booking period length of the currently used mechanism, and even more efficiently by adopting some variant of the top trading cycles mechanism developed by Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez (1999).