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Rehabbing Flooded Houses: A Guide for Builders and Contractors
Rehabbing Flooded Houses is a guidebook for professional builders and contractors rehabbing flooded single-family houses. Homes flood for a variety of reasons(overflowing rivers, high coastal waves, hurricanes, etc.) but the methods for determining ...
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Accession Number: 200823 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Healthy Housing Inspection Manual
The Healthy Housing Inspection Manual supplements the 2006 CDC/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Housing Reference Manual. The Healthy Housing Inspection Manual introduces the elements of an all-inclusive home inspection to ...
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Accession Number: 200821 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Mobility, Residential Location and the American Dream: The Intrametropolitan Geography of Minority Homeownership
This article applies data from Washington, DC, Chicago and Los Angeles to estimate three-level nested multinomial logit models of household mobility, residential location and homeownership tenure choice. Model simulation indicates that shocks to ...
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Accession Number: 200811 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Housing Affordability and Family Well-Being: Results from the Housing Voucher Evaluation
The Effects of Housing Vouchers on Welfare Families was an experimental evaluation that examined the effects of housing assistance on low-income families eligible for or receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Household-based rental ...
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Accession Number: 200808 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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‘Optimal’ Accessibility Landscapes? Development of a New Methodology for Simulating and Assessing Jobs-Housing Relationships in Urban Regions
Research into land use—transport relationships through the lens of the jobs-housing balance and the closely related excess commuting framework continues to draw substantial interdisciplinary attention. There have been several recent research efforts ...
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Accession Number: 200807 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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The Impact of Inflation on Home Prices and the Valuation of Housing Characteristics Across the Price Distribution
Applying quantile regression to over 136,000 single-family home sales in the Jacksonville, Florida area for the period 1990 to 2006, this study shows that the valuation of housing characteristics differs significantly across the quantiles of the ...
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Accession Number: 200803 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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“Skin in the Game”: Zero Downpayment Mortgage Default
This paper extends the analysis of mortgage default to include mortgages that require no downpayment from the purchaser. The results indicate that borrowers who provide even modest downpayments from their own resources have substantially lower ...
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Accession Number: 200802 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Running to Stand Still: Through the Looking Glass With Federally Subsidized Housing in New York City
Research and policy on the geography of assisted housing is dominated by a powerful conventional wisdom: Project-based subsidies are presumptively bad because they anchor assisted households in poor, racially segregated neighborhoods, while vouchers ...
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Accession Number: 200801 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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Locational Patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments: A Sociospatial Analysis of Four Metropolitan Areas
This study examined neighborhood characteristics and spatial patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax-Credit (LIHTC) developments in four metropolitan areas using census data and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) LIHTC database. ...
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Accession Number: 200800 | Publication Date: 2008 |
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The Influence of Nonprofit Networks on Local Affordable Housing Funding: Findings from a National Survey of Local Public Administrators
This article examines public administrators' perceptions of the effects of nonprofit networks on local affordable housing decisions. It builds on a larger body of research concerning the affordable housing activities of community-based organizations ...
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Accession Number: 200799 | Publication Date: 2008 | | |
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