Note: Other single-family housing includes attached units and manufactured housing. Source: Tabulations of the 2000-2013 American Community Survey.
According to the Census…
Every spring, the Census Bureau publishes estimates of the population as of the prior July 1st at the sub-county level (i.e., individual municipalities, incorporated places,…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. Today’s post was written by Patricia McCoy, Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor, Boston College…
In conversations about the declining homeownership rate in the U.S., some commentators have pointed to declines in the share of married people as an important contributing…
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…
Eric Belsky, Rachel Bogardus Drew, Daniel McCue
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November 1, 2007
W07-7: This paper examines the challenges of projecting the long-run sustainable demand for new residential construction and presents a range of estimates for the likely…
RR07-1: The nation faces many longstanding rental housing challenges. Chief among these concerns are widespread rental affordability problems, neighborhood decline, the…