Despite substantial government investment aimed at reducing health disparities, large differences in health persist across geographic and racial lines in the United States.…
Desegregation-focused housing policies aimed at reducing disparities in neighborhood conditions may also reduce disparities in health outcomes. This paper examines the…
Ann Carpenter, Taz George, Lisa Nelson
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August 29, 2019
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…
Ann Carpenter, Taz George, Lisa Nelson
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August 29, 2019
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…
In recent years, federal housing policy has shifted toward a system that is increasingly reliant on tenant-based subsidies. Of the five million households across the country…
W14-11: This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars…