While gentrification raises fears of displacement, it also offers some hope because the growth in higher-income households in previously poor areas can help to shore up city…
RR07-3: At a congressional hearing in 1948, representative A.S. Mike Monroney argued that the construction of new, subsidized rental housing improves the surrounding…
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Scott Susin, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Michael Schill
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October 13, 2001
In this paper, we look at the impact of two New York City homeownership programs on surrounding property values. Both of these programs—the Nehemiah Plan and the New Homes…
Wayne Archer, David Ling, Gary McGill
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October 9, 2001
This paper examines the differential home mortgage termination experience of “affordable housing” households in the United States from 1985 to 1995. Using five two-year…
W00-7: The authors argue in this paper that the reengineering of failed inner city public housing projects that is underway is one of the most important and positive…
