W01-7: This paper studies the response of the housing market to immigration shocks. I find a positive association between immigrant flows and changes in rents in the…
W00-7: The authors argue in this paper that the reengineering of failed inner city public housing projects that is underway is one of the most important and positive…
W99-10: Affordability periods will end for the first 23,000 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units in 2002. Their expiration will launch a new round of preservation…
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…
James Hammitt, Eric Belsky, Jonathan Levy, John Graham
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March 1, 1999
W99-1: Residential building codes intended to promote health and safety may produce unintended countervailing risks by adding to the cost of construction. Higher…
Josephine Louie, Eric Belsky, Nancy McArdle
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August 14, 1998
W98-8: Homeownership is still a prime goal for Americans, and a rising homeownership rate is good for our country. Families, especially lower-income families, build up…
W98-2: Although housing reform is generally associated with government programs enacted in the twentieth century, the concept of the slum--a residential environment that…
