Carlos Martín, Michael Bueno, Michael Johnson, Francisco Montes, Riordan Frost
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January 31, 2023
Property improvement assistance programs often benefit renters last and least. Low-income renters, especially those living in small multifamily properties (those with 2-4…
Yonah Freemark, Riordan Frost, Carlos Martín, Jorge Morales-Burnett, Francisco Montes
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January 20, 2023
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is the largest single investment in the United States' public works in decades. Over the next five years, it will fund…
W13-1: With house prices falling nationally by more than 30 percent from 2006 to 2011 and foreclosures soaring, many have started to write the obituary on homeownership…
Chris Herbert, Eric Belsky, Nicholas DuBroff
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December 12, 2012
W12-8: In 2004, Fundacion CIDOC commissioned the Joint Center for Housing Studies to prepare a report assessing The State of Mexico’s Housing, which was a follow up…
W12-7: The field of community development is at an inflection point, poised to achieve scale, impact, and integration of the many lessons learned over the past…
Chris Herbert, Eric Belsky, William Apgar
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April 30, 2012
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…
George Masnick, Daniel McCue, Eric Belsky
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September 1, 2010
W10-9: Given the prolonged period of high unemployment and the possibility that it will influence headship rates and household growth, this working paper explores a…
MF10-10: The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the UnitedStates is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it…
Daniel McCue, Eric Belsky, Melissa Jacoby, Margaret Nipson
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April 5, 2010
Homeowners have long sought debt relief in the federal bankruptcy courts, but they take different paths to reach that point. For some, home mortgage problems are a…
MF10-15: This paper examines mortgage credit markets and the need for government intervention to protect and advance the public interest. We identify as rationales for…