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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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Remodeling Spending in Major Metropolitan Areas

Julia Reade • September 1, 2001

This paper is the first to give a detailed account of the variation of behavior across a large set of U.S. locations. Aside from a few articles that use simple variables to…
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Residential Conversions

Julia Reade, Zhu Xiao Di • August 5, 2000

W00-5: The stock of residential units in the United States is constantly changing as units are added, demolished, or converted. This paper looks at the conversion of…