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…
UCC08-8: For centuries, legislated caps on loan interest rates (rate ceilings) have been advocated as a form of consumer protection in otherwise free market economies.…
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…
Lucille Harrigan, Alexander von Hoffman
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February 27, 2004
W04-2: The paper begins with an overview of Fairfax County and proceeds in rough chronological order to examine the evolution of land use and the politics thereof. It…
BABC 04-14: The 1971 federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was intended to promote greater accuracy in credit reporting in the United States. Inaccurate credit…
Lucille Harrigan, Alexander von Hoffman
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October 1, 2002
W02-6: In the early 1960s, representatives of ten planning commissions from the metropolitan region of Washington, D. C. drafted a farsighted plan for the future growth…
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…