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Because housing affordability has proven to be an ongoing challenge in the United States, there is renewed interest in European-style social housing. While the German, Swiss…

This paper is the second part of a study on the Dutch social housing system. The first paper traced the history of the system. Nonprofit housing associations (called…

Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. These social units, which in 2022 rented for an average of €560 per month (or about $600),…

Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. While the definition of “social housing” has changed over the last 120 years, as of 2022 it…

Contract for deed home sales, a once-notorious practice that seemingly faded into obscurity in the 1970s, have gained greater attention in the wake of the foreclosure crisis…

This paper examines contract for deed activity across six Midwestern states to improve our understanding of this market and the places in which this activity occurs. Using…

W05-11: Efforts to promote equal access to mortgage capital by racial and ethnic minorities have historically been a key component of the civil rights agenda in the…

BABC 04-1: This paper examines the nexus between the utilization of basic financial services, ownership of a transaction account, the creation and use of credit records…

W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…