With interest rates ticking upward in 2018 and the prospect of further rate increases to come, the era of historically-low mortgage rates may be ending. While many homeowners…
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger, Jennifer Molinsky
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November 16, 2017
This framing paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard…
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger
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September 19, 2017
Residential segregation by race and ethnicity is a longstanding challenge in the United States, with the racial and economic geography of communities throughout the nation…
Jonathan Spader, Daniel McCue, Chris Herbert
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December 12, 2016
Following the rise and fall in the homeownership rate over the past two decades, considerable uncertainty exists about the future trajectory of the homeownership rate. This…
Chris Herbert, Eric Belsky, Nicholas DuBroff
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December 12, 2012
W12-8: In 2004, Fundacion CIDOC commissioned the Joint Center for Housing Studies to prepare a report assessing The State of Mexico’s Housing, which was a follow up…
Chris Herbert, Eric Belsky, William Apgar
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April 30, 2012
W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…
The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the United States is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it unfolded sowed…
MF10-10: The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the UnitedStates is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it…
Daniel McCue, Eric Belsky, Melissa Jacoby, Margaret Nipson
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April 5, 2010
Homeowners have long sought debt relief in the federal bankruptcy courts, but they take different paths to reach that point. For some, home mortgage problems are a…