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Sustainable development as a policy guide: an application to affordable housing in island communities
This article uses sustainability as a lens through which to examine affordable housing policies in geographically-isolated island communities, with the intent of assessing the utility of using sustainable development as a guide to policy ...
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Accession Number: 200933 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Federal Programs for Addressing Low-Income Housing Needs: A Policy Primer
Housing costs constitute the single biggest expenditure in most family budgets, and many low-income families have difficulty finding housing they can reasonably afford. Although most family-strengthening and community change initiatives recognize ...
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Accession Number: 200928 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Affordable Housing Preservation Initiatives: A State-by-State Summary
This working paper is part of the National Housing Trust's ongoing effort to identify state and local level initiatives that preserve affordable, multifamily housing. The information gathered includes preservation initiatives related to state ...
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Accession Number: 200927 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Housing Assistance for Low Income Households: States Do Not Fill the Gap
The persistent gap between what housing costs and what low income people can afford to pay is the fundamental challenge in the U.S. housing market today. Closing that gap is the key objective of federal low income housing programs. Yet, despite the ...
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Accession Number: 200926 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Subprime Facts: What (We Think) We Know about the Subprime Crisis and What We Don't
Using a variety of datasets, we document some basic facts about the current subprime crisis. Many of these facts are applicable to the crisis at a national level, while some illustrate problems relevant only to Massachusetts and New England. We ...
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Accession Number: 200925 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Predatory Lending Laws and the Cost of Credit
Various states and other local jurisdictions have enacted laws intending to reduce predatory and abusive lending in the subprime mortgage market. These laws have created substantial geographic variation in the regulation of mortgage credit. This ...
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Accession Number: 200922 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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A locational analysis of growth and change in American metropolitan areas
This article examines the process of growth and change within the American constellation of metropolitan areas. It begins with the premise that regional development happens in two interconnected ways: via demand-induced growth, which is driven by ...
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Accession Number: 200900 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Evaluation of the “10-Year” Smoke Alarm Project
In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) began awarding funds to 14 state health departments to implement Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education (SAIFE) ...
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Accession Number: 200885 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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How are neighbourhood design features valued across different neighbourhood types?
In this paper, we examine whether implicit prices of neighbourhood design features in the housing market vary significantly across traditional, neo-traditional, and conventional suburban neighbourhood types. The set of neighbourhood design features ...
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Accession Number: 200869 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Evaluating Evidence of Discrimination in Multiethnic Housing Markets
Landlords and realtors occasionally are identified as causal agents in the creation or maintenance of segregated neighborhoods. The existence of racial/ethnic separation at local scales, however, is no sure proof of illegal discriminatory acts or ...
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Accession Number: 200866 | Publication Date: 2008 | | |
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