BABC 04-10: Spending financed by home equity extraction helps smooth household consumption and bolster the economy in economic downturns, but may reduce wealth…
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,…
W00-8: Housing is a crucial component of economic competitiveness. The growing spatial mismatch between where job growth is taking place and where people can afford to…
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…