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However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no…

In the United States, rural areas face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. While far from homogenous, rural areas nevertheless tend to share some similar…

COVID-19 will have many effects on housing markets in the coming weeks and years. One of the near-term consequences of the spread of and response to the virus is likely to be…

Scholars conducting empirical research on U.S. suburbs must develop their own definition of suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly…

For a variety of reasons, many public housing authorities (PHAs) have gone from being entirely public entities that just build and manage public housing to becoming “hybrid”…

Decreasing federal resources since the 1980s, policy devolution to the local level, and expansion of market-based approaches for affordable housing delivery have resulted in…

Riverside is a low-density neighborhood in the city of Columbus, Ohio that has a distinctly suburban feel. About three-quarters of the housing units are owner-occupied,…

W00-2: The Mexican mortgage market experienced significant turbulence in the 1990s allowing a newly created financial intermediary, the Sociedades Financieras de Objeto…

W00-3: The Mexican government has struggled to curtail growth of bad bank loans since the currency devaluation of December1994. This paper examines borrower choice to…

This report is modeled after TheState of the Nation's Housing reports produced by the Joint Center for Housing Studies since the early 1980s. These reports provide a…