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RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…

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…

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…

W12-8: In 2004, Fundacion CIDOC commissioned the Joint Center for Housing Studies to prepare a report assessing The State of Mexico’s Housing, which was a follow up…

Tackling urban poverty and attending to its spatial manifestations is vitally important to national economic and social development. From a low of an estimated 28 percent of…

W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…

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…

Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…

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…