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…
Allison Charette, Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics, Ellen Marya, Daniel McCue
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September 21, 2015
This report shows that the number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1…
HBTL-08: Public policies at the federal, state, and local levels have espoused to support homeowners and homeownership for decades. Yet, low-income people continue to…
Adam Levitin, Janneke Ratcliffe
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November 12, 2013
HBTL-12: If the housing crisis has had a silver lining, it is the opportunity to rethink our housing finance policy. The US housing finance system and its regulation…
William Apgar, Allegra Calder, J. Michael Collins, Mark Duda
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November 30, 2002
W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…
J. Michael Collins, Eric Belsky, Nicolas Retsinas
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November 15, 1998
W98-5: Although the federal government provides tax incentives for homeownership, current tax provisions provide few incentives for lower-income families to buy a home…
J. Michael Collins, Eric Belsky, Micky Tripathi
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July 15, 1999
W99-7: This paper provides a step-by-step approach to understanding and estimating the economic benefits of helping lower-income households buy and own their first home…
