Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Housing markets began the twentyfirst century on a high note. Buoyed by the longest economic expansion in history, home sales, homeownership rates, and the value of…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Breakthroughs in medicine and improved lifelong health are changing the way people in their 60s and 70s look at their housing choices, while greater financial resources and…
W00-2: The Mexican mortgage market experienced significant turbulence in the 1990s allowing a newly created financial intermediary, the Sociedades Financieras de Objeto…
Robert Litan, Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, Susan White Haag
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April 20, 2000
In November 1999, President Clinton signed into law financial modernization legislation (referred to herein as the Financial Modernization Act (FMA)), perhaps the most…
W00-3: The Mexican government has struggled to curtail growth of bad bank loans since the currency devaluation of December1994. This paper examines borrower choice to…
W00-1: Once upon a time the location of towns and cities, at least superficially, seemed to be largely determined by the preferences of kings, princes, bishops, generals…
W99-9: The level of new housing construction activity in large American cities – as measured in numbers and share of building permits – has been rising since the…
W99-11: To date, various parties have used the term "predatory lending" to describe a wide range of abuses. Regulators, industry and advocates have not agreed on a…
Nancy McArdle, Amy Davidson, Denise Hines
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July 30, 1999
W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…
W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…
