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Innovation in Homebuilding and the Future of Housing
Problem: The future of housing depends in part on innovation by homebuilders. Planners should know how to influence innovation in homebuilding in order to promote innovative practices that conserve the environment, improve quality, and reduce ...
Author(s): C. Theodore Koebel
Accession Number: 201002 | |
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From Despair to Hope: Hope VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities
From Despair to Hope documents the evolution of HOPE VI, a federal program that promotes mixed income housing integrated with services and amenities to replace the economically and socially isolated public housing complexes of the past. As ...
Author(s): Henry Cisneros, Lora (ed.) Engdahl
Accession Number: 201001 | |
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What Is A Tree Worth? Green-City Strategies, Signaling and Housing Prices
We investigate the correlation between curb-side tree plantings and housing price movements in Philadelphia from 1998 to 2003, comparing two programs, one by the Philadelphia Horticultural Society that requires block-group effort that focuses on ...
Author(s): Susan Wachter, Grace Wong
Accession Number: 201000 | |
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The Incidence of the Land Use Regulatory Tax
Land use regulation has been found to impose a substantial tax on housing within select U.S. metropolitan areas. In this paper, we develop hypotheses regarding the incidence of this tax by income class and racial group within these areas. Parcel ...
Author(s): Ron Cheung, Tom Mayock, Keith Ihlanfeldt
Accession Number: 200999 | |
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The Dynamics of Homeownership: Eliminating the Gap Between African American and White Households
This article uses a sample of young renters from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a continuous-time econometric model to explore not only the initial tenure transition to first-time homeownership, but also subsequent possible tenure ...
Author(s): Thomas Boehm, Alan Schlottman
Accession Number: 200998 | |
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The Housing Landscape for America's Working Families, 2007
Working a full-time job does not guarantee a family a decent, affordable place to live—a problem the Center for Housing Policy has been tracking for the past eight years. Using the most recent American Housing Survey (2005), this report ...
Author(s): Barbara Lipman, Maya Brennan
Accession Number: 200997 | |
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Housing Affordability Trends for Working Households: Affordability Worsens Despite Decline in Home Prices
Since the mid-decade onset of the foreclosure crisis, home sales and values have plummeted nationally. The median sales price for an existing home fell from $221,900 in 2006 to $198,100 in 2008 and is trending down by another 12 percent in 2009. ...
Author(s): Keith Wardrip
Accession Number: 200996 | |
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Locked Out: Keys to Homeownership Elude Many Working Families with Children
It is time to take a second look at existing policies designed to close the homeownership gap for lower-income and minority families. While not without risks, homeownership has important implications for the strength of our communities and the ...
Author(s): Barbara Lipman
Accession Number: 200995 | |
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A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
We know from our prior studies that there is a clear trade off between the housing and transportation expenses of Working Families. Families that spend more than half of their total household expenditures on housing put 7.5 percent of their budget ...
Author(s): Barbara Lipman
Accession Number: 200994 | |
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The Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosed Properties, and Federal Policy: Some Implications for Housing and Community Development Planning
Problem: Foreclosures surged during the 2007 to 2009 national foreclosure crisis and federal policymakers failed to respond quickly and forcefully to the problem. The large numbers and geographic concentration of foreclosed properties have posed a ...
Author(s): Dan Immergluck
Accession Number: 200993 | |
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