There are many causes to the collapse of the housing market and the recent financial turmoil, but the contribution of the CRA appears marginal. While banks did engage in…
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…
Centro de Investigacion y Documentacion de la Casa (CIDOC), Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal
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April 1, 2005
The development of the housing sector is a strategic factor for any nation’s economic and social growth. An efficient and accessible housing market reduces the effect and…
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…