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A SHARED FUTURE: THE DUTY TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING: A LEGAL AS WELL AS POLICY IMPERATIVE
February 2018
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering...
The American dream while Black: ‘Locked in a vicious cycle’
NBC News
The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans on the...
Designing Senior Housing for Safe Interaction in the Age of COVID-19
August 2020
How do we design for safe interaction, not social isolation?...
The American dream while Black: ‘Locked in a vicious cycle’
NBC News
The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans on the...
A wave of evictions is coming. Democrats are proposing a lifeline
Vox
America was staring down a housing crisis even before the...
America’s Next Housing Crisis: How The Pandemic Is Pushing Renters To The Brink
Forbes
Overall measures of rental housing affordability and security improved only...
Designing Senior Housing for Safe Interaction in the Age of COVID-19
August 2020
How do we design for safe interaction, not social isolation?...
In Pursuit of Equitable Development: Lessons from Washington, Detroit, and Boston
September 2020
Equitable development, a new concept in planning and community development,...
20th Annual Dunlop Lecture: Addressing Homelessness: What Can (and Can’t) Architecture Do?
October 2020
In the 20th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, presented by...
A SHARED FUTURE: THE DUTY TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING: A LEGAL AS WELL AS POLICY IMPERATIVE
February 2018
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering...
Estimating the Gap in Affordable and Available Rental Units for Families
April 2019
While we typically think of family households as homeowners, renters...
The Potential for Shared Equity and Other Forms of Down Payment Assistance to Expand Access to Homeownership
October 2019
Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have...
Research and Tools
The Role of the Implied Guarantee Subsidy in FHLB Membership: Beautiful Politics but Ugly Policy
July 27, 2020
The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system consists of eleven regional banks that are cooperatives owned by their members, which their congressional charters currently specify can include commercial banks, thrifts, credit unions, insurance companies and certain other organizations. Because of the government support to their borrowings, the advances are low cost compared to the regular market rate funding available to the member-owners. The original focus of the FHLB system, as implied by its name, was on mortgage lending and mortgage-centric financial institutions that were not eligible to be members of the Federal Reserve system....
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Floodway Buyout Strategy for a Resilient Houston
July 09, 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 damage a constant threat. Houston is also the largest city in the US without a zoning ordinance code, though it does have land-use restrictions. The structures, policies, and tactics of disaster recovery today are not preparing the City of Houston for the increasingly costly events of tomorrow. ...
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Demystifying GSE Credit Risk Transfer: Part III – Special Interests and Politicization
July 06, 2020
This third installment about demystifying single-family mortgage credit risk transfer (CRT) by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae describes a series of attempts to politicize CRT, including an analysis and correction of the many misconceptions integral to those attempts....
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Making Rent in the Pandemic: How Are Older Adult Households Faring?
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
While older adults are more susceptible to COVID-19, households headed by older adults have been more insulated from the economic...
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Meyer Fellow
How Cognitive Skills Influence Inequality in Contemporary Housing Markets
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Which families gain access to neighborhood and school contexts most conducive to their children’s development? Race and class continue to...
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Research Associate and Associate Project Director, Remodeling Futures
Specialty Replacement Remodelers Likely to See More Consistent Business Performance During Market Downturn
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
As the residential remodeling industry is once again mired in a slump, we expect many home improvement contracting businesses will...
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Senior Industry Fellow
Beautiful Politics but Ugly Policy: The Role of the Implied Guarantee Subsidy in FHLB Membership
Monday, July 27, 2020
In February of this year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), regulator of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the eleven...
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Throughout the year, the Joint Center for Housing Studies reaches beyond the university to promote national discussion of important housing policy issues. In addition to on-campus seminars, lectures, and webcasts, we convene major conferences and symposia on topics of national importance in the housing field, bringing together housing practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from organizations and communities around the country.
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