Zhu Xiao Di, Yi Yang, Xiaodong Liu
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November 30, 2003
W03-5: Housing is the cornerstone of household wealth, especially for low-income households. With the growth in the U.S. homeownership rate, housing wealth is important…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 1, 2003
Despite the 2001 recession and weak ensuing recovery, by most measures 2002 was the strongest year for housing on record. Residential investment, home sales, homeownership…
W03-3: Through a longitudinal survival analysis, this paper provides the first look into the long-term process of nest leaving, which is a pre-condition for natural…
W03-2: This report summarizes the findings of a Joint Center for Housing Studies survey of the use and performance of Essential Function Bonds. The report was sponsored…
William Apgar, Allegra Calder, J. Michael Collins, Mark Duda
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November 30, 2002
W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…
W02-7: Modern project agreements have their roots in construction developments in World War II, and they emerged in the post-war era at atomic energy and space and…
W02-10: This paper examines the rationale for mixed-income approaches to affordable housing development, as well as the record of such developments in meeting their…
W02-8: In October 1996, at nearly the mid-point of President Bill Clinton’s term in office, a lead article in The New York Times Magazine heralded: “The Year That…
Lucille Harrigan, Alexander von Hoffman
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October 1, 2002
W02-6: In the early 1960s, representatives of ten planning commissions from the metropolitan region of Washington, D. C. drafted a farsighted plan for the future growth…
In 2001, there were over 5.7 million foreign-born1 homeowners living in the United States, with $1.2 trillion in aggregate house value and $876 billion in home equity. More…