W00-6: Though total spending on residential renovation and repair activities is approaching $200 billion a year, spending by homeowners and rental property owners on…
Eric Belsky, Matthew Lambert, Alexander von Hoffman
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August 30, 2000
This report summarizes the information and opinions gleaned from these discussion groups. It is part of a larger study of the effectiveness of the CRA undertaken by the Joint…
W00-5: The stock of residential units in the United States is constantly changing as units are added, demolished, or converted. This paper looks at the conversion of…
W00-4: This is a case study of Suzhou, China, an ancient city of over two thousand years that upgraded itself during the 1990s from a medium-sized city to fifth in China…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Housing markets began the twentyfirst century on a high note. Buoyed by the longest economic expansion in history, home sales, homeownership rates, and the value of…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Breakthroughs in medicine and improved lifelong health are changing the way people in their 60s and 70s look at their housing choices, while greater financial resources and…
W00-2: The Mexican mortgage market experienced significant turbulence in the 1990s allowing a newly created financial intermediary, the Sociedades Financieras de Objeto…
Robert Litan, Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, Susan White Haag
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April 20, 2000
In November 1999, President Clinton signed into law financial modernization legislation (referred to herein as the Financial Modernization Act (FMA)), perhaps the most…
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…
W00-1: Once upon a time the location of towns and cities, at least superficially, seemed to be largely determined by the preferences of kings, princes, bishops, generals…
