- According to data from the federal Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, educators must tailor support for the disadvantaged children in new environments (suburbs and small towns, as opposed to rural and inner-city areas) because they have different stressors and challenges.
- The Landscape and Urban Planning journal published a new study finding that upward mobility is significantly higher in compact areas than in metropolitan areas due to job accessibility.
Author Archives: Shea Cunningham
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- Can Short-Term Rental Arrangements Increase Home Values?: A Case for Airbnb and Other Home Sharing Arrangements, Jamila Jefferson-Jones, The Cornell Real Estate Review, Vol. 13, June 2015.
- Residential Land Values in the Washington, DC Metro Area: New Insights from Big Data, Morris A. Davis, Stephen D. Oliner, Edward Pinto & Sankar Bokka.
- The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art?, Peter N. Salib, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 4, 2016.
- An Ethnic Roller Coaster: Disparate Impacts of the Housing Boom and Bust, Olga Gorbachev, Brendan O’Flaherty & Rajiv Sethi.
- Measuring House Price Bubbles, Steven C. Bourassa, Martin Hoesli & Elias Oikarinen, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-01.
- Cause for Rebellion? Examining How Federal Land Management Agencies & Local Governments Collaborate on Land Use Planning, Michelle Bryan, 6 Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 1 (2015).
- Macroprudential Regulation of Mortgage Lending, Steven L. Schwarcz, Southern Methodist University Law Review, Forthcoming.
- Fee Simple Obsolete, Lee Anne Fennell, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 739; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 559.
- Financial and Housing Wealth, Expenditures and the Dividend to Ownership, Sheng Guo & William G. Hardin III.
- Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure, Kurt Mitman, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11043 (Paid Access).
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
- The Federal Housing Administration has announced its new multifamily insurance rates, which show a reduction encouraging capital financing of affordable apartments.
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- PNC Bank settled for $32.3 million to end class action suit alleging that the Bank overcharged homeowners for force-placed insurance.
- Renters in a class action sue Re/Max Holdings for allegedly stealing tenants’ rent payments and security deposits.
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- The U.S. Conference of Mayors released its “Hunger and Homelessness Survey” in 22 cities. Even though the economy is improving, these is still many issues with hunger and homelessness.
- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its “Foreclosure Prevention Report” finding that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have prevented approximately 3.61 million foreclosures from September 2008 until October 2015.
- The National Housing Conference (NHC) released report “How Investing in Housing Can Save on Health Care.” The report states that providing housing to the homeless would significantly reduce public healthcare expenditures.
Thursday’s Advocacy and Think Tank Roundup
- Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Perspectives found that the “surge in new rental construction fails to meet need for low-cost housing” in its recent report, “America’s Rental Housing report.”
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- Owner Occupancy Fraud and Mortgage Performance, Ronel Elul & Sebastian G. Tilson, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 15-45.
- A Tale of Two Worlds: Wealth and Wastage, and Scarcity and Sustainability, Masudur Rahman, OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 08, No. 11, pp. 11-24, 2015.
- How Genetics Might Affect Real Property Rights, Mark A. Rothstein & Laura Rothstein, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2016.
- Bank Capital and Lending Relationships, Michael Schwert.
- The Effect of Relational Capabilities and Managerial Capabilities on Performance Outcome: A Comparison between Architecture Firms and Real Estate Development Companies, Marijana Sreckovic.
- Environmental Performance and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Commerical Mortgages and REIT Bonds, Piet M.A. Eichholtz, Rogier Holtermans, Nils Kok & Erkan Yönder.
- Income Equality Across Cities, Jung Hyun Choi & Richard K. Green.
- Estimating a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model with Partial Observability for Household Mortgage Default and Prepayment Behaviors, Chao Ma.
