Monthly Archives: March 2016
Racial & Ethnic Change in NYC
March 9, 2016
by David Reiss
Michael Bader and Siri Warkentien have posted an interesting mapping tool, Neighborhood Racial & Ethnic Change Trajectories, 1970-2010. They had set out to answer the question: how have neighborhoods changed since the Civil Rights Movement outlawed discriminatory housing? We study how neighborhood racial … Continue reading
Read MoreWednesday’s Academic Roundup
by Shea Cunningham
Spillover Effects of Continuous Forbearance Mortgages, Kadiri Karamon, Douglas A. McManus & Elias Yannopoulos. Structure Depreciation and the Production of Real Estate Services, Jiro Yoshida. Decentralized, Disruptive, and On Demand: How the Sharing Economy Will Re-Shape Local Government, Stephen R. … Continue reading
Read MoreThe Future of Securitization
March 8, 2016
by David Reiss
SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar’s Remarks at ABS Vegas 2016 are worth a look for all of those interested in the future of the mortgage-backed securities market. I have interspersed selections of his remarks with my comments: As our country’s capital markets … Continue reading
Read MoreTuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
by Shea Cunningham
The ACTION Campaign submitted a letter to Congress requesting it expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Senators Patrick Leahy and Chris Coons, and Representative Marcia Fudge released Dear Colleague letters in support of robust funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships … Continue reading
Read MoreKeeping Cash on Hand
March 7, 2016
by David Reiss
TheStreet.com quoted me in Why Some Investors Are Keeping Large Sums of Money in Cash. It reads, in part, Investors are still holding large positions in cash amid the continued volatility in the stock market since they remain uncertain about the outlook of … Continue reading
Read MoreMonday’s Adjudication Roundup
by Shea Cunningham
The New York Court of Appeals reinstated suit against Donald Trump for defrauding customers of Trump University finding that the state did not take too long to bring suit. The Battery Park City Authority pled to the Second Circuit to … Continue reading
Read MoreWhy Doctors Buy Bigger Homes Than Lawyers
March 4, 2016
by David Reiss
Realtor.com quoted me in Why Doctors Buy Bigger Homes Than Lawyers (and What It Means to You). It reads, in part, Take that, Alan Dershowitz: Although both doctors and lawyers can typically afford better-than-decent-sized homes, a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic … Continue reading
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