Why do national trends in house prices spread more to some cities than to others? This paper proposes an explanation of house price contagion based on migration spillovers…
Raphael Bostic, Kathleen Engel, Patricia McCoy, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Susan Wachter
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February 1, 2008
UCC08-9: The subprime mortgage market, which consists of high-cost loans designed for borrowers with weak credit, has grown tremendously over the past ten years. Between…
This paper examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in underserved areas, hereafter affordable lending,…