October 30, 2015
Floodproofing Communities
NYU’s Furman Center has released a Research Brief, Planning for Resilience: The Challenge of Floodproofing Multifamily Housing. The Brief opens, As sea levels rise and storms become more frequent and severe due to climate change, many urban areas along the … Continue reading
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October 28, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Foiled by the Banks? How a Lender’s Decision May Support or Undermine a Jurisdiction’s Environmental Policies that Promote Green Buildings, Darren A. Prum, Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, 2015, Forthcoming. The Numerus Clausus Principle, Property Customs, and the … Continue reading
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October 27, 2015
Primer on NYC Affordability Crisis
Enterprise has released a report, 2015 New York City Housing Security Profile and Affordability Housing Gap Analysis. Its conclusions are not shocking, but they are sobering: Of 2 million renter households in New York City, nearly 640,000 are low-income and … Continue reading
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October 21, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Clustered Housing Cycles, Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Michael Owyang & Margarita Rubio, FRB St. Louis Paper No. FEDLWP2-13-021. Crowding Out Effects of Refinancing on New Purchase Mortgages, Steven A. Sharpe & Shane M. Sherlund, FEDS Working Paper No. FEDGFE2015-17. The Determinants of … Continue reading
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October 19, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission were granted its request to freeze Luca International Group LLC’s CEO’s assets. He allegedly engaged in a “Ponzi-like” scheme with EB-5 investors. New York appeals court revived claims against Nomura Holdings Inc. brought by … Continue reading
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October 14, 2015
Neighborhood Change and Public Housing
The Effects of Neighborhood Change on NYCHA Residents, a report released to little notice in May, has received a lot of attention after the NY Daily News wrote a disparaging article about it. I will leave it to others to decide … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Pricing Residential Real Estate Derivatives, Mark Michael Richter. Local House Prices and Mental Health, Nayan Krishna Joshi, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2015. Why Did So Many Subprime Borrowers Default During the Crisis: Loose Credit or Plummeting … Continue reading
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