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For a brief window between the late 1930s and the late 1940s, life insurance companies built approximately 50,000 middle-income rental apartments across the United States.…

For a brief window between the late 1930s and the late 1940s, life insurance companies built approximately 50,000 middle-income rental apartments across the United States. At…

Adam Tanaka reviews Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods by Rachael A. Woldoff, Lisa M. Morrison and Michael R. Glass.   This post is cross-…

This post is cross posted from a series that our colleagues at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation are doing on affordable housing as a challenge to the…

Today, when more than one in three American households live in rental housing, ongoing erosion in renter incomes combined with ever rising rents has pushed the number of…

End of year festivities and Congressional budget deliberations in 2012 unfortunately diverted attention away from the critical task of ensuring that all Americans have access…

During the past decade, the housing finance system contributed to a boom-and-bust cycle that triggered the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. A brief but…

W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…

For decades “fair lending” issues have received attention in both public policy arenas and the popular press, but the release of 2004 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data…

Over the last two decades, the rise of risk based pricing, the growing importance of the secondary mortgage market, and the emergence of mortgage brokers in the marketing and…