February 19, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco – Community Investments: California’s Solution to Veteran Homelessness May Lie in Supportive Housing National Association of Realtors Supports Federal Housing Authority’s Plan to Reduce Mortgage Insurance Premiums
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February 18, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on the Residential Real Estate Market, by Wojciech Kopczuk, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10375. The National Rise in Residential Segregation, by Trevon Logan & John Parman, NBER Working Paper No. w20934. (Paid access). … Continue reading
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February 17, 2015
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
HUD AWARDS $1.8 BILLION TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE NATION’S PUBLIC HOUSING Says Housing Authorities Will Use Funding to Maintain Housing for Families, Seniors Julián Castro: Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Positive About the FHA in Written Testimony before … Continue reading
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February 16, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued and settled with Flagship Financial Group for $225,000 for advertising their mortgages as government approved. Citigroup, UBS and Goldman Sachs settle for $235 million over Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities that Residential Capital, LLC issued without … Continue reading
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February 13, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports
FHFA House Price Index up .08% in November 2014 HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs 2015 Report to Congress New York Comptroller’s Report Finds Empire State Development Corporation Lacking in Accountability and Transparency Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Releases Report On Reverse … Continue reading
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February 12, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-Up
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Issues Optimistic Report on Emerging Trends in the Home Remodeling Market National Housing Preservation Data Base Incorporates all Available Data on Federally Subsidized Housing Properties NYU Furman Center, Research Brief Shows A (Very) Slight … Continue reading
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February 11, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Banking Integration and House Price Comovement, by Augustin Landier, David Alexandre Sraer & David Thesmar, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10295. Second-Liens and the Leverage Option, by Adam J. Levitin & Susan M. Wachter, U of Penn. Inst. for Law & … Continue reading
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