This paper explores and contributes to scholarship on the escalating related concerns of environmental conservation and housing affordability. Situated within contemporary…
Research on incentivized forest management in Canada and the United States has focused primarily on participation and landholder characteristics with less attention given to…
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae provide the financing for almost half of all the residential mortgages in America. When they came under severe distress in the financial crisis of…
This past December 23rd, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that, despite the severe pandemic-induced economic downturn, its index of house prices had risen…
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, homelessness was increasing across the country. As of January 2019, 568,000 people were experiencing homelessness, an increase of…
Chris Herbert, James Stockard, Ben Hecht
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December 1, 2020
Could fresh, “outside-of-the-box” thinking help address the seemingly intractable problem of rental affordability?
Last spring, we decided to explore that question by…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) received overwhelmingly negative feedback when its GSE capital rule was proposed earlier this year. The main criticisms were that…
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic, a powerful movement for racial justice, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to bring the nation’s longstanding…
What should we do with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises?
The GSE reform question, i.e. how should the two companies end their…
The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have just entered into their thirteenth year of conservatorship, despite the fact that it was…
