December 17, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-Up
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released An Opportunity Agenda for Renters in which it laments its finding that where one lives determines such things as income, mobility and education. In order to address these stubborn patterns CAP recommends a two … Continue reading
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December 16, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
The Liquidity Crisis, Investor Sentiment, and REIT Returns and Volatility, Daniel Huerta, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Forthcoming. Counting Casualties in Communities Hit Hardest by the Foreclosure Crisis, Matthew J. Rossman, Utah Law Review (2016 Forthcoming). Climate Change and … Continue reading
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December 15, 2015
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released a tool to measure financial well being, it is a scale of ten questions which financial educators can use to gauge financial well being more precisely and it builds off of the … Continue reading
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December 14, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
EB-5 fraud case will get a jury trial contrary to the request from the SEC. The court rejected the SEC’s attempt to block it claiming it came too late. Wells Fargo settles with a group of homeowners for $25.7 million … Continue reading
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December 11, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the latest batch of data from it’s American Community Survey on Small Area Income and Poverty statistics.
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December 10, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Round-Up
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has released America’s Rental Housing: Expanding Options for Diverse and Growing Demand in which it finds that the last ten years have seem an unprecedented growth in the demand for rental housing.
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December 9, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
On the Value of Shared Bike Systems in Urban Environments: Evidence from the Real Estate Markets, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Marios Kokkodis & Theodoros Lappas. Planning an Affordable City, David Schleicher & Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Iowa Law Review, Vol. 101, pp. … Continue reading
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