Is allowing borrowers to suspend mortgage payments an effective way to stabilize the economy during a recession? In a new working paper, Omeed Maghzian and I attempt to…
This paper estimates the impact of household liquidity provision on macroeconomic stabilization using the 2020 CARES Act mortgage forbearance program. We leverage…
Yonah Freemark, Riordan Frost, Carlos Martín, Jorge Morales-Burnett, Francisco Montes
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January 20, 2023
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is the largest single investment in the United States' public works in decades. Over the next five years, it will fund…
The great majority of America’s high-performing community development organizations (CDOs) are actively tackling health challenges in their communities. In a new working…
Alina Schnake-Mahl, Sarah Norman
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January 30, 2017
During the past fifty years, community development organizations have worked in low-income communities that face the greatest barriers to good health. While recent changes in…
