UCC08-2: In The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs describes the poor as “… ready to act, both individually and collectively … hard working … [and having] a very…
BABC 04-10: Spending financed by home equity extraction helps smooth household consumption and bolster the economy in economic downturns, but may reduce wealth…
Ellen Seidman, Jennifer Tescher
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February 4, 2004
BABC 04-4: The paper argues that five factors have contributed to narrowing the gap between supply and demand: technological advances that lower costs and expand…
William Rohe, Shannon Van Zandt, George McCarthy
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October 12, 2001
Interest in homeownership among Americans has been justified by claims that it confers benefits both to individuals and to the society as a whole, including good citizens,…
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,…