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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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Housing and Wealth Accumulation: Intergenerational Impacts

Thomas Boehm, Alan Schlottmann • October 15, 2001

It has long been argued that promoting homeownership among low-income households is worthwhile because owned housing may be an important source of savings for these families…