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RR07-16: The problems presented by at risk, vacant and abandoned rental properties are national in scope, although their magnitude varies by state and locality. While…

RR07-9: This paper considers what the appropriate design of government policies towards rental housing subsidies would be in the absence of the long and mixed legacy of…

RR07-5: This paper examines the lessons learned from decades of experience with the several programs under which project-based affordable rental housing has been…

RR07-17: U.S. rental housing policy is primarily aimed at relieving the housing cost burdens of a fraction of low-income Americans for as long as they remain income-…

RR07-10: In recent years, housing has all but disappeared from national-level debate except for occasional discussions of a possible housing “bubble” and the all-too-…

RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…

RR07-6: For many years, policymakers have agreed that low-income, working-age people who receive government rent subsidies ought to strive for self-sufficiency and that…

The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…

W05-6: Homeownership has received great support from policy makers because of its perceived significant financial and social benefits for both individuals and…

W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…