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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

August 25, 2016

Thursday’s Advocacy and Think Tank Roundup

By Jamila Moore

The Milken Institute released a report, The Supply Side: Defining a Pathway for Increasing California’s Housing Development Opportunities, which detailed methods California can use to address their affordable housing crisis.

August 24, 2016

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Jamila Moore

The Impact of Major Life Events on Australian Household Financial Decision-Making and Portfolio Rebalancing, Tracey West & Andrew Worthington Contaminated Childhood: The Chronic Lead Poisoning of Low-Income Children and Communities of Color in Federally Assisted Housing, Emily Benfer Stimulating Housing Markets, … Continue reading

August 23, 2016

Tuesday’s Regulatory and Legislative Roundup

By Jamila Moore

New York approved a two billion dollar housing bill aimed at increasing the number of affordable units in New York, improving the existing public housing complexes, and addressing New York’s homelessness issues. The state of New Jersey approved a 34.8 … Continue reading

August 22, 2016

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Jamila Moore

Variant Holding Co. LLC asks a Delaware court to dismiss a case they filed against their past CEOs for interfering with the company’s real estate purchase and sales. An Oklahoma court determined that Enable Midstream Partners LP can no longer … Continue reading

August 19, 2016

Friday’s Government Report Roundup

By Robert Engelke

In a report titled, Tenure Choice and the Future of Homeownership, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in part with other contributors discuss how the future of American homeownership is being pushed in contradictory directions by demographic changes. … Continue reading

August 18, 2016

Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup

By Robert Engelke

Senior Fellow in Residence Ed DeMarco and Center for Financial Markets Director Michael Bright have released the first in a four-part series of papers designed to help policymakers end the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and put our housing finance system … Continue reading

August 17, 2016

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Robert Engelke

This paper, Agglomeration Effects and Liquidity Gradients in Local Rental Housing Markets, empirically analyzes the relation between local liquidity in rental housing markets and urban agglomeration effects. Using listed rent offers from online market platforms, This paper, Housing Costs and Commuting … Continue reading