April 27, 2022
Sharing Your Home with Strangers
Debra Bechtel, Crystal Liu, Ernira Mehmetaj, and I have just posted Sharing Your Home with Strangers: Common-Interest Ownership and Financing Options to SSRN (as well as to bepress). The abstract reads, As the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. escalates, … Continue reading
April 27, 2022 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 29, 2021
Reducing Land Use and Zoning Restrictions
The White House hosted an event today on Reducing Land Use and Zoning Restrictions. While the event was pretty short — an hour or so — it had a bunch of heavy hitters presenting, including Professor Edward Glaeser of Harvard. … Continue reading
October 29, 2021 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
July 10, 2019
Does Historic Preservation Limit Affordable Housing?
I answer that it can in CQ Researcher’s Historic Preservation: Can The Past Escape The Wrecking Ball? Many people fail to realize that land use policies like historic preservation involve big trade-offs. The most important one is that if you want … Continue reading
July 10, 2019 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 9, 2019
Financing The American Dream
I published Financing The American Dream in the May/June 2019 issue of the ABA’s Probate & Property magazine. it opens, Two movie scenes can bookend the last hundred years of housing finance. In Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (RKO … Continue reading
May 9, 2019 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
March 8, 2018
Sustainable Housing for FHA Borrowers
Donghoon Lee and Joseph Tracy of the NY Fed have posted a staff report, Long-Term Outcomes of FHA First-Time Homebuyers. It opens, The Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), David Stevens, in remarks delivered on December 12, 2009, defined the purpose of … Continue reading
March 8, 2018 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
February 26, 2018
Housing Affordability and GSE Reform
Jim Parrott and Laurie Goodman of the Urban Institute have posted Making Sure the Senate’s Access and Affordability Proposal Works. It opens, One of the most consequential and possibly promising components of the draft bill being considered in the Senate … Continue reading
February 26, 2018 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
February 21, 2018
Zoning and Housing Affordability
Vanessa Brown Calder has posted Zoning, Land-Use Planning, and Housing Affordability to SSRN. It opens, Local zoning and land-use regulations have increased substantially over the decades. These constraints on land development within cities and suburbs aim to achieve various safety, … Continue reading
February 21, 2018 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
