The volatility of the business cycle and an extreme shortage of housing were the twin problems of American economic life in the years following the First World War. Under the…
HBTL-05: This paper discusses links among three familiar developments in US housing markets over the last quarter century: ongoing “sprawl” of housing units away from…
William Rohe, Shannon Van Zandt, George McCarthy
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October 12, 2001
Interest in homeownership among Americans has been justified by claims that it confers benefits both to individuals and to the society as a whole, including good citizens,…