December 8, 2022
A Controversial Fix for America’s Housing Market
Insider quoted me in A Controversial Fix for America’s Housing Market: More Foreclosures. It opens, How many people should lose their homes to foreclosure? In an ideal world, of course, there would be no foreclosures at all. Everyone who buys … Continue reading
December 8, 2022 in Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
October 31, 2022
Improving Minority and Low-Income Homeownership Experiences
I participated in a very interesting event at the Chicago Fed last week: Risk and Racial bias: Workshop improving Minority and Low-Income Homeownership Experiences. The Community Development and Policy Studies (CDPS) team at the Chicago Fed sponsored the workshop. … Continue reading
October 31, 2022 in Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
May 2, 2022
Foreclosure Echo
David Reiss CC BY-NC-SA Linda Fisher recently posted a pdf of The Foreclosure Echo: How the Hardest Hit Have Been Left out of the Economic Recovery, a book she co-authored with Judith Fox. It came out before the pandemic, … Continue reading
May 2, 2022 in Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
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 Home Ownership | 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 Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
November 20, 2018
The Future of Homeownership
I wrote a short article, Restoring The American Dream, for Brooklyn Law Notes. It is based on my forthcoming book on federal housing finance policy. It opens, Two movie scenes can bookend the last hundred years of housing finance. In … Continue reading
November 20, 2018 in Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
October 31, 2018
The Cost of Owning Is Rising
ValuePenguin quoted me in The Cost of Owning a Home Is Rising. It reads, in part, If you’ve looked lately at home prices in any major U.S. city, you likely got a dose of sticker shock thanks to a red-hot housing … Continue reading
October 31, 2018 in Home Ownership | Permalink | No Comments
