These Issue Briefs, authored by Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and former visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of…
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,…