This working paper compares rental housing in 12 countries in Europe and North America, using individual records from household surveys. Differences in housing…
The Joint Center’s biennial America’s Rental Housing reports examine the rental housing market in the US and have documented the increasing cost burdens faced by…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. Today’s post was written by Patricia McCoy, Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor, Boston College…
The recent Joint Center report, America’s Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs, reiterates the extent of severe cost burdens faced by renters, especially those…
HBTL-01: From 2007 through 2011, the United States housing market suffered from a severe imbalance in supply and demand. On the supply side, there were too many homes…
MF10-6: Since mid-2007, the federal government has devoted enormous sums of money and effort to foreclosure prevention. Washington’s approach to rising foreclosures has…
Patricia McCoy, Elizabeth Renuart
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February 1, 2008
UCC08-5: In this chapter, we provide a critical analysis of the legal landscape of residential mortgage lending and explain how federal law abdicated regulation of the…
Raphael Bostic, Kathleen Engel, Patricia McCoy, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Susan Wachter
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February 1, 2008
UCC08-9: The subprime mortgage market, which consists of high-cost loans designed for borrowers with weak credit, has grown tremendously over the past ten years. Between…
J. Michael Collins, David Crowe, Michael Carliner
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October 5, 2001
Much of homeownership research and policy focuses on financial or information barriers that might frustrate low-income renter households from buying a home. Given existing…