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Retraction: The Effect of Rent Control Status on Eviction Filing Rates: Causal Evidence from San Francisco Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-13
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Effect of Rent Control Status on Eviction Filing Rates: Causal Evidence From San Francisco Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Max Gardner, Brian Asquith
This paper presents causal evidence of a significant positive effect of rent control status on eviction filing rates in San Francisco, CA. Two datasets of eviction notices (n = 13,887) and property...
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Game of Homes: Carrots, Sticks, and the Puzzle of Housing Vacancies Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jia-Huey Yeh, Yucheng Zou, Szu-Hua Wang, Kuo-Cheng Hsu
Housing affordability and high vacancy rates are pressing issues faced by countries worldwide, with notable challenges arising in many parts of Asia. This study, taking Taipei as a representative m...
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“This Voicemail Box Is Full”: Landlord Perceptions of Communication Issues as a Key Challenge to Participating in the Housing Choice Voucher Program Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Anita Zuberi
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, which is the largest rental subsidy program in the United States, relies on the participation of landlords. Research shows, however, that not all landlords...
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“Especially Being Homeless, They Just Think You’re Infected with COVID or Something”: A Qualitative Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on People Experiencing Homelessness With a History of Injection Drug Use in Baltimore, Maryland Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Abigail K. Winiker, Eshan U. Patel, Becky L. Genberg, Jennifer Ching, Catherine Schluth, Shruti H. Mehta, Gregory D. Kirk, Suzanne M. Grieb
People experiencing homelessness with a substance use disorder are a highly structurally vulnerable population, facing a unique burden of compounding stigma, discrimination, and adverse health outc...
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Moving From Crisis to Stability? The Success and Limits of an Eviction Prevention Program Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Benjamin F. Teresa, Kathryn L. Howell, I.-Shian Suen, Amanda Robinson, Roy Sabo
Eviction prevention policies are often crafted to focus on either an upstream approach, prior to households interacting with eviction court, or a downstream approach, once the court process has beg...
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The Complexities of Student Housing Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Meagan M. Ehlenz, Sarah L. Mawhorter, Rolf Pendall
Student housing is a crucial contributor to urban revitalization and neighborhood change. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing student housing, engaging the complexity of the sector, i...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Vincent Reina, Claudia Aiken
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 34, No. 4, 2024)
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Gender Marker Laws and Access to Emergency Rental Assistance for Transgender Renters in the United States During COVID-19 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Sarah F. Small
Barriers to changing gender markers on identification documents (IDs) create many economic challenges for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. In the United States, each state has diff...
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A Shelter by Any Other Name? Delivering Homeless Crisis Accommodation Services in a Hotel Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Rose-Marie Stambe, Stefanie Plage, Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff, Edwina Wagland
How to shelter people who are experiencing homelessness is a pressing social problem. A substantive literature critiques the congregate shelter model that is often coupled with paternalistic servic...
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Affordable Housing Through Community Land Trusts (CLTs): Examining Factors Associated with the Number of Units in CLTs Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 C. Aujean Lee, Shakil Kashem, Dwayne Baker
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a model of housing that helps to ensure affordability and community stability for low-income households. However, there is a dearth of studies that have examined CL...
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Subsidy Overlaps in Federal Housing Policy Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Gregg Colburn, Arthur Acolin, Rebecca Walter
There is limited and incomplete empirical evidence that documents the extent of overlap, or layering, between federal housing programs, including supply-side subsidies, such as the Low-Income Housi...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Vincent Reina, Claudia Aiken
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2024)
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Can Fair Share Policies Expand Neighborhood Choice? Evidence From Bypassing Exclusionary Zoning Under Massachusetts Chapter 40B Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Noémie Sportiche, Hector Blanco, Madeleine I. G. Daepp, Erin Graves, David Cutler
Opening up neighborhoods that offer greater opportunities for social mobility to low- and moderate-income households remains a challenge in the United States. Exclusionary zoning practices act as a...
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Meaningful Action: Evaluating Local Government Plans to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in California Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Paavo Monkkonen, Aaron Barrall, Aurora Echavarria
A 2018 California law requires local governments to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) in their General Plan’s housing element. This paper examines how eight municipalities reacted to this r...
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Where Is the Housing Shortage? Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Kirk McClure, Alex Schwartz
This article examines the extent to which the US as a whole and its metropolitan areas face a housing shortage by comparing change in total housing units and total households from 2000 to 2020. Alt...
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Judged by Their Deeds: Outcomes for Properties Acquired by Contract Sellers Following the Foreclosure Crisis in Detroit Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Eric Seymour, Joshua Akers
Prior research has documented the reemergence of predatory land contracts in majority-Black neighborhoods in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. Though land contracts facilitate property transfers ...
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The Housing Shortage Is Still Out There Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Daniel McCue
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Where Is the Housing Shortage? Reply to Respondents Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kirk McClure, Alex Schwartz
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Is There Enough Housing Production? It Matters Which Indicators Are Used to Answer Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 George C. Galster
McClure and Schwartz argue that there is no US housing shortage for the 2000-2020 period because: (1) we added more dwellings than households; (2) vacancy rates are not low by historical standards;...
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Where Has All the Housing Gone? Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Roberto G. Quercia
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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What Is a Housing Shortage? Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Yonah Freemark
The United States has faced decades of increasing housing costs and declining construction. Many scholars and policymakers argue that additional supply is necessary to combat inadequate availabilit...
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Missing Housing: How Los Angeles Is Wasting Multifamily Housing Units in the Midst of a Housing Crisis Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lex Frazier, W. Bowman Cutter
Like other US cities, Los Angeles faces a housing crisis, with sale and rental prices exceeding the national average. We used data on property characteristics and zoning status to examine propertie...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Vincent Reina
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2024)
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Shifting the Redlining Paradigm: The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Maps and the Construction of Urban Racial Inequality Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alan Mallach
While it is important to recognize the racist roots of contemporary urban conditions and Black disadvantage, the focus on the HOLC redlining maps of the late 1930s, which have become a staple of bo...
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An Analysis of Safe Parking Programs: Identifying Program Features and Outcomes of an Emerging Homelessness Intervention Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Leslie R. Lewis, Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell, Stacey Livingstone
As vehicular homelessness increases in the United States, safe parking programs have proliferated. Yet little research exists on this emerging homelessness intervention. This three-year, mixed-meth...
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Do Publicly Funded Neighborhood Investments Impact Individual-Level Health-Related Outcomes? A Longitudinal Study of Two Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, PA from 2011 to 2018 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rebecca B. Smith, Matthew D. Baird, Gerald P. Hunter, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Andrea S. Richardson, Jonathan H. Cantor, Tamara Dubowitz
Research examining the relationship between a neighborhood’s built environment and resident health has largely either used a static, cross-sectional research design or focused on the neighborhood i...
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Inclusionary Housing Policy in Cities of the South: Navigating a Path Between Continuity and Disruption Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ivan Turok, Margot Rubin, Andreas Scheba
Inclusionary housing policy (IHP) encourages developers to provide affordable housing in well-located areas. This can add to their costs and risks, so the process of policy adoption is complicated ...
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Learning More From Homeless Point-in-Time Counts Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marybeth Shinn, Hanxuan Yu, Alisa R. Zoltowski, Hao Wu
Previous research has found that patterns of sheltered homelessness and characteristics of people who use shelters vary between point-prevalence and period-prevalence tallies, but there are no comp...
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Does Poor Health Influence Residential Selection? Understanding Mobility Among Low-Income Housing Voucher Recipients in the Moving to Opportunity Study Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Theresa L. Osypuk, Samantha Gailey, Nicole M. Schmidt, Dolores Acevedo Garcia
Housing-mobility programs and housing choice vouchers provide low-income families with a potentially transformative opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. However, families often face ba...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Claudia Aiken, George Galster
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2024)
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Housing Insecurity: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey, 2021–2022 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Emily Rosenbaum, Samantha Friedman
The growing body of research of the eviction process and forced moves in general is mixed regarding racial/ethnic differences, likely resulting from focusing on past experiences with eviction, pote...
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Has Housing Filtering Stalled? Heterogeneous Outcomes in the American Housing Survey, 1985–2021 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jonathan Spader
Filtering of housing units—the process through which housing units over time serve occupants with lower or higher incomes—is a primary source of low-cost housing supply in the United States. Howeve...
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The Relationship Between Exits From Federally Subsidized Housing and Wages, King County, WA Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Danny V. Colombara, Emilee L. Quinn, Annie Pennucci, Andy Chan, Tyler Shannon, Samuel Havens, Amy A. Laurent, Megan Suter, Alastair I. Matheson
Federally subsidized housing programs aim for economic self-sufficiency. We modeled housing exit type’s relationship with wage income using public housing authority exit data and Washington State w...
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Choice and Opportunity: Housing Relocation, Neighborhood Change, and Family Well-Being in the South City Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) in Memphis, TN Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Andrew Foell, Patrick J. Fowler, Jason Q. Purnell, Von Nebbitt, Jason Jabbari, Yung Chun
Mixed-income development initiatives target distressed public housing for redevelopment and provide support to low-income families. These initiatives involve an involuntary move for families living...
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Exchanging Housing Dollars for Health Care Savings: The Impact of Housing First on Health Care Costs Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Kevin Brennan, Singumbe Muyeba, Kathryn Buggs, Alexis Henry, John Gettens, Parag Kunte
This paper assesses the effects of the Housing First model on the utilization of public health services and claims among chronically homeless individuals and in the process addresses the problem of...
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How Does Real Estate Investor Ownership Mediate Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Asking Rents? Evidence from Austin, TX Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Jenna Davis
Scholarly and popular discourse often describe accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as one of the last bastions of housing affordability, framing “mom and pop” landlords as historically renting out ADUs...
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The Race to Exclude: Residential Growth Controls in California Cities, 1970–1992 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Joe LaBriola
Local regulations that restrict residential growth are a key driver of California’s affordable housing crisis. Scholars have argued these growth controls were implemented in the late 20th century b...
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Landlords and Housing Quality in Rural Georgia: Assessing the Relationship Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jerry Shannon, Kim Skobba, Jermaine Durham
Landlords play a key role in maintaining the quality of rental properties. Similarly, over the last decade, the growth of financial instruments such as real estate investment trusts (REITs) along w...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Claudia Aiken, George Galster
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 33, No. 6, 2023)
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Nonprofit Landlord Types on the Housing Market—A Key to Rising Displacement in Berlin? Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Corinna Hölzl, Henning Nuissl, Fabian Beran, Tim Kormeyer
Displacement research emphasizes the importance of housing market processes and their consequences for tenants. In recent years, a lively discussion in housing studies has emerged around policy mec...
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The Effect of State Housing Policies on Eviction Filings and Judgments in the United States, 2001–2018 Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ashley C. Bradford, W. David Bradford
Housing instability is a significant problem in the United States, with a long literature documenting its impact on the social well-being of Americans. A relatively new line of research has illumin...
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Correction Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-23
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Different Data, Different Measures: Comparing Alternative Indicators of Changes in Neighborhood Home Values Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Dan Immergluck, Adria Hollis
Urban scholars and practitioners have used changes in neighborhood-level home values to serve as indicators of neighborhood change, including gentrification and disinvestment. A common measure is t...
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Does Subsidized Housing Facilitate More Sustainable Commute Patterns? Insights From Canadian Metropolitan Areas Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Skye Collishaw, Markus Moos, Tara Vinodrai
Housing has become increasingly unaffordable, particularly in amenity-rich and transit-accessible areas. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis to investigate the relationship between livi...
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Understanding Latinx Perceptions of and Responses to Neighborhood Change Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Michelle E. Zuñiga
Abstract Using a place attachment lens, this article evaluates Latinx perceptions of and responses to neighborhood change. Research questions guiding this study include: (a) How do perceptions of place and neighborhood change vary among Latinx communities? (b) How do Latinx community members frame neighborhood change (as beneficial or disruptive)? And (c) How do these perceptions and assessments of
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“Demolition Planning” in a U.S. Legacy City: Using Stakeholder Input to Plan for the Demolition of Blighted, Vacant Properties in Flint, Michigan Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Victoria Morckel, Melissa Hertlein, Christina Kelly
Abstract This paper presents a case study of participatory “demolition planning” for blighted, vacant properties in the legacy city of Flint, Michigan. It outlines how the Genesee County Land Bank Authority (GCLBA) used residents’ responses to a survey about demolition priorities to create an algorithm that assigns demolition scores to blighted properties in Flint. The survey results showed that residents’
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Examining the Potential Impact of Restricting Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Housing for Individuals With Certain Criminal Convictions in Texas Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Laura Witte, Jack Tsai, Paula Cuccaro, Andrea Link, Vanessa Cox, Vanessa Schick
Because housing is central to the recovery of individuals with experiences of homelessness and incarceration, it is important to consider how U.S. policies denying housing to residents with crimina...
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Editorial Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Claudia Aiken, George Galster
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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In Search of the Missing Middle: Historical Trends in and Contemporary Correlates of Permitting of 2–4 Unit Structures Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Daniel Kuhlmann, Seva Rodnyansky
Missing middle housing is an important although often overlooked housing form in America’s built environment. Although still a large component of the US housing stock, production of new small missi...
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Financing Housing Development in an Underdeveloped Financial Market: Learning from Developers’ Financing Adaptations? Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kwabena Mintah, Kenneth Appiah Donkor-Hyiaman
Abstract Research shows that most households in developing economies rely on informal housing finance and self-help because of the challenges imposed by the underdeveloped capital markets. How housing developers navigate these challenges is less well understood, but this understanding is necessary to develop innovative financing solutions that efficiently meet the escalating housing demand in these
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Associations Between Exit Type From Federal Housing Assistance and Subsequent Homelessness Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Niki Z. Petrakos, Zichen Liu, Hantong Hu, Taylor Keating, Danny V. Colombara, Amy A. Laurent, Andy Chan, Annie Pennucci, Alastair I. Matheson
Abstract Relationships between exit types and homelessness after exiting from federal housing assistance in King County, Washington have yet to be explored. Through a retrospective cohort study including people who exited from Seattle Housing Authority (2012–2018) or King County Housing Authority (2016–2018), differences in time-to-homelessness between groups with different exit types were examined
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Response: It’s Always About the Context Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Harley F. Etienne
It is possible to agree with an article’s recommendations but disagree with the argumentation, evidence, and rationales that led to them. That is to say, Murray and Gordon’s idea in “Land as Airspa...
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Mortgage Loan Costs: Magnitude and Drivers of Variation Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Arthur Acolin, Rebecca J. Walter
Abstract This article uses national data disclosed as part of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) to examine variations in loan costs based on type of loan, borrower, purpose (purchase, improvement, or refinance), and neighborhood characteristics. Loan costs are generally higher for nonconventional conforming loans with higher levels of credit risks (loans with higher combined loan-to-value, higher
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Health and Healthcare Access Among Adults Living in Affordable Housing: National Estimates for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Sarah G. Gensheimer, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Albert W. Wu, Craig Evan Pollack
By merging data from the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2016) with a census of buildings financed by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), this study provides national estimates for th...
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Land as Airspace: How Rezoning Privatizes Public Space (and Why Governments Should Not Give It Away for Free) Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Cameron K. Murray, Joshua C. Gordon
A popular but contested view is that mass rezoning is an essential policy measure to address housing affordability. Often obscured in debates about this measure is that rezoning involves the privat...
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The Politics of Studentification: An Analysis of the Student Housing Debate in Boston Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Arushi Sood, Thomas J. Vicino
Recent popular and scholarly work has drawn attention to the relationship between universities and urban housing markets. Universities play a critical role in the post-industrial urban economy and ...
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Pricing Upzoning: A Reply to Critics Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Cameron K. Murray, Joshua C. Gordon
Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2024)
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An Unpersuasive Argument for Selling Development Rights: Commentary on the Article “Land as Airspace: How Rezoning Privatizes Public Space (and Why Governments Should Not Give It Away for Free)” Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Paavo Monkkonen
Funding urban governments is important and in places with weak governance, it may be the case that selling development rights is the most viable option for raising local revenue. Murray and Gordon,...
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The Case for Mass Upzoning Housing Policy Debate (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Minjee Kim
Murray and Gordon argue against mass upzonings that are unaccompanied by value capture tools based on the grounds that (a) cities are giving away valuable public air rights to private property owne...