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W09-4: This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years to show that houses sold after foreclosure, or close in time to…

Recent work has highlighted the significance of incarceration for wealth accrual and black-white gaps in homeownership, but the monetary sanctions and disruptions to…

This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint…

W06-4: Metropolitan Boston, one of the nation’s largest urban areas, is in the midst of sweeping transformations. It is growing slowly in population but is sprawling…

W99-2: In spite of warnings to exercise caution when using the Current Population Survey to track trends between 1993 and later years because of major changes since 1994…

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…