W13-10: The Las Vegas case study focused on four zip codes in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area representing low to middle-level housing market subareas (the lower three…
RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
RR07-15: There are 18 million units in one to four unit rental housing properties in the United States, making up half of the nation’s rental housing stock, yet this…
William Goetzmann, Matthew Spiegel
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October 8, 2001
Homeownership increases the incentive to maintain property and neighborhood, as well as decreasing the outflow of rents from low-income zones. However these benefits are not…
Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…