The city of Houston could better protect and aid the approximately 18,000 people who live in the city’s repeated flood prone areas if it created an integrated home buyout…
Houston, Texas, America’s most diverse and fourth-largest city, is the most flooded city in the United States. Houston’s geography and urban planning make flooding and water…
UCC08-2: In The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs describes the poor as “… ready to act, both individually and collectively … hard working … [and having] a very…
W04-4: Since 1998 the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, through its Remodeling Activity Indicator (RAI), has been releasing quarterly estimates of…
Household’s net-worth increase at the end of the 1990’s had an effect on home remodeling financing. Using the 2001 Consumer Practices Survey (CoPS) this paper analyzes the…
This paper is divided in two sections. The first part describes the two-step allocation process, including the MLP model estimation for missing doers and the description of…
Home improvement projects have a significant impact on the housing stock, affecting housing values and improving the standard of living. Also, the home improvement industry…