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…
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…
W11-3: While interest in sustainable residential development and construction has increased, aligning markets to these goals is highly challenging. Useful information…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 6, 2011
With employment growth strengthening, consumer spending up, and rental markets tightening, some of the ingredients for a housing recovery were taking shape in early 2011. Yet…
W11-3: Of the several large and important domestic housing and urban programs produced by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society administration, the best-known is Model Cities.…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 1, 2010
This paper synthesizes the symposium proceedings, drawing upon the presentations and discussion at the event as the well as the papers themselves. Rather than present a…
The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the United States is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it unfolded sowed…
MF10-14: A reference to remedies in debtor-creditor law usually conjures up images of the rights of creditors to enforce obligations when debtors default. Whether due to…
MF10-11: Consumer transactions of all kinds are heavily regulated in the US (and all other developed capitalist countries) but debates on regulation in the US are…