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…
What is the effect of mortgage debt reductions that reduce payments in the long-term but not in the short-term? In a new paper using data from a recent government…
This paper empirically and theoretically analyzes the effect of debt reductions that reduce long-term but not short-term obligations. Isolating the effect of future…
W13-7: What is the incidence of housing vouchers? In a frictionless, price-taking equilibrium, increased generosity of a narrowly-targeted subsidy causes increases in…
Kermit Baker, J. Michael Collins, Andrea Hopf
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October 10, 1998
W98-6: Although conservatively estimated at $90 billion a year, data on spending by U.S. homeowners on improvements and repairs to their homes are not reported on a…
