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…
HBTL-01: From 2007 through 2011, the United States housing market suffered from a severe imbalance in supply and demand. On the supply side, there were too many homes…
MF10-6: Since mid-2007, the federal government has devoted enormous sums of money and effort to foreclosure prevention. Washington’s approach to rising foreclosures has…
Patricia McCoy, Elizabeth Renuart
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February 1, 2008
UCC08-5: In this chapter, we provide a critical analysis of the legal landscape of residential mortgage lending and explain how federal law abdicated regulation of the…
Raphael Bostic, Kathleen Engel, Patricia McCoy, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Susan Wachter
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February 1, 2008
UCC08-9: The subprime mortgage market, which consists of high-cost loans designed for borrowers with weak credit, has grown tremendously over the past ten years. Between…
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…
Donald Haurin, Toby Parcel, R. Jean Haurin
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October 14, 2001
Does homeownership affect the outcomes of resident children? Using a national data set, we observed that children of homeowners have better home environments, high cognitive…
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…