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Neighbourhood Diversity, Metropolitan Segregation and Gentrification: What Are the Links in the US?
An important yet little understood aspect of gentrification is the extent to which it affects spatial relations between various social groups. This study employs two measures of gentrification to discern how it is related to neighbourhood-level ...
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Accession Number: 200949 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Mixing Housing Tenures: Is it Good for Social Well-Being?
Mixing tenures is now a widely accepted policy designed to tackle problems of social exclusion in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, the evidence base for mixing tenures is fragmented and ambiguous. With few exceptions, studies of mixed-tenure ...
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Accession Number: 200948 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Homeownership and Child Welfare
Recent studies have concluded that homeownership is beneficial to children. This result is important because it is used to justify large government subsidies that encourage homeownership. We reexamine the results of two of the most prominent of ...
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Accession Number: 200944 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Are Property Taxes Capitalized into Housing Prices in Savannah, Georgia? An Investigation of the Market Mechanism
This study applies a hedonic pricing model to determine whether property taxes are capitalized into housing prices in the city of Savannah, Georgia. There were sufficient data to study a total of 2,888 single-family houses for the period of ...
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Accession Number: 200940 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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The Determinants of Foreclosed Property Values: Evidence from Inner-City Cleveland
This paper examines the overall magnitude and determinants of the value of foreclosed homes. A hedonic analysis of residential sales from Cuyahoga County, Ohio is employed to estimate how property and location-specific characteristics influence the ...
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Accession Number: 200939 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Architectural Review Boards and Their Impact on Property Price and Time-on-Market
This paper investigates the impact of privately-administered architectural review boards on property price and marketing time and, thus their financial efficacy. Additionally, the paper demonstrates the usefulness of two-stage least squares ...
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Accession Number: 200938 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States
We analyze the impact of lender recourse on mortgage defaults theoretically and empirically across U.S. states. We study the effect of state laws regarding deficiency judgments in a model where lenders can use the threat of a deficiency judgment to ...
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Accession Number: 200912 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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The Pricing of Mortgages by Brokers: An Agency Problem?
Mortgage brokers have grown in importance in the home mortgage origination process in recent years, suggesting they provide a valuable service matching borrowers and lenders, although their involvement has also been linked to the recent surge in ...
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Accession Number: 200898 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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Enabling Investments in Energy Efficiency: A study of energy efficiency programs that reduce first-cost barriers in the residential sector
Energy efficiency has a vital role to play in addressing our daily resource needs and creating a vibrant future for our society. This paper focuses on the first-cost barriers to increased energy efficiency in residential homes. Loans and other ...
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Accession Number: 200884 | Publication Date: 2009 |
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The State of the Nation's Housing 2009
This annually issued report analyzes the status of the nation’s housing by reviewing updated trends in the housing market, demographic drivers, homeownership, rental housing, and housing challenges. The impacts of housing affordability, physical ...
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