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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…

Pay for Success (PFS) initiatives have received widespread attention in the United States in the past several years. The outcomes-based projects hold great promise,…

Our new working paper explores healthy home concerns and behaviors among American homeowners and renters. We show that both groups are interested in improving the indoor…

Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…

This Spring, I attended the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day conference attracted over 1,000 attendees, including more than 150…

Current discussions of climate change do not often focus on housing. Unless large numbers of homes are destroyed or damaged by extreme weather events such as hurricanes,…

W13-4: This paper is part of a larger project that situates American housing within the ecologically-oriented 1970s, when energy independence and environmental…