The paper is a detailed discussion of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, which since 1972 has been working ensure that there is "meaningful and lasting racial diversity in…
Stephanie Moulton, Roberto Quercia
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October 26, 2013
HBTL-10: State Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) entered the homeownership policy scene in the early 1970s through the sale of tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds, which…
RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
Roberto Quercia, Spencer Cowan, Ana Moreno
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February 18, 2004
BABC 04-18: In this paper, we examine the cost-effectiveness of community-based foreclosure prevention interventions using two proxy measures: time to resolution and the…
Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…
Roberto Quercia, Michael Stegman, Walter Davis, Eric Stein
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October 1, 2001
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted to encourage banking institutions to meet the credit needs of their entire communities. In response, lenders have…