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Using a Buyout Strategy to Make Houston More Resilient

Erica Vilay, Phil Pollman • July 9, 2020

The city of Houston could better protect and aid the approximately 18,000 people who live in the city’s repeated flood prone areas if it created an integrated home buyout…
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Floodway Buyout Strategy for a Resilient Houston

Erica Vilay, Phil Pollman • July 9, 2020

Houston, Texas, America’s most diverse and fourth-largest city, is the most flooded city in the United States. Houston’s geography and urban planning make flooding and water…
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Refinance and the Accumulation of Home Equity Wealth

Frank Nothaft, Yan Chang • February 10, 2004

BABC 04-10: Spending financed by home equity extraction helps smooth household consumption and bolster the economy in economic downturns, but may reduce wealth…
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The Industrial Structure of Affordable Mortgage Lending

Frank Nothaft, Brian Surette • October 2, 2001

This paper examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in underserved areas, hereafter affordable lending,…