Decreasing federal resources since the 1980s, policy devolution to the local level, and expansion of market-based approaches for affordable housing delivery have resulted in…
UCC08-8: For centuries, legislated caps on loan interest rates (rate ceilings) have been advocated as a form of consumer protection in otherwise free market economies.…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
W05-2: The property tax on housing is a major component of local government revenues and of consumers’ housing costs. This study uses newly available data from the 2001…
W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…
BABC 04-14: The 1971 federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was intended to promote greater accuracy in credit reporting in the United States. Inaccurate credit…