- Budgetary Impact of Major Federal Programs that Guarantee Mortgages—Congressional Budget Office’s January 2015 Baseline
- California Assembly Democrat’s Proposal to Create More Affordable Housing in California
- Dr. Michael Stegman, Counselor to the Treasury Secretary for Housing Finance Policy, Remarks before the Third Annual Goldman Sachs’s Housing Finance Conference
- Fannie Mae: Housing Forecast February 2015
Tag Archives: real estate finance
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
- ACLU: “Here We Go Again: Communities of Color, The Foreclosure Crisis, and Loan Servicing Failures”
- Federal Housing Finance Agency – HPI Calculator – projects what a given house purchased at a point in time would be worth today if it appreciated at the average appreciation rate of all homes in the area.
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Interactive Home Price Index – Maps changes in home prices each month compared with prices one year earlier, by county, based on CoreLogic overall house price indexes.
- Joint Center for Housing Studies Harvard University: “Racialized Recovery: Post-Forclosure Pathways in Distressed Neighborhoods in Boston”
- National Association of Realtors – Realtors Confidence Index Reflects on Positive Trends in Home Sales for January
- Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Brief “The U.S. Treasury’s Credit Rating Agency Exercise: First Steps Out of the Private Label Securities Desert”
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- American Dream in Flux: The Endangered Right to Lease a Home, by Andrea J. Boyack, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2014.
- A Guide to New York State Commercial Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure, by Gerald Lebovits & Michael B. Terk, 87 N.Y. St. B.J. 22, February 2015.
- Super-Liens to the Rescue? A Case Against Special Districts in Real Estate Finance, by Christopher K. Odinet, Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 72, 2015. (Discussing availability of creditors willing to “make real estate-backed loans in special district areas”).
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How to Make America Walkable, by Michael Lewyn, 42 Real Est. L.J. 512 & Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper. (Discussing the necessity to make cities walkable, and thus more accessible, in areas where public transportation is lacking).
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Unemployment as an Adverse Trigger Event for Mortgage Default, by Chao Yue Tian, Roberto Quercia, & Sarah F. Riley, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Forthcoming.
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
- H.R. 1142 was introduced in Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent and expand the temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit program, an identical bill was introduced into last year’s Congress (text of H.R. 1142 is not yet available).
- HUD waives Rental Assistance Demonstration 20% Cap on Project Basing for the San Francisco Housing Authority
Friday’s Government Reports Round-Up
- U.S. Census Bureau/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Joint Release – New Residential Construction January 2015
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report, Credit Supply and the Housing Boom – provides a novel perspective on the possible origins of the Great Recession.
- Freddie Mac – Fourth Quarter 2014 Financial Results
- Freddie Mac – Refinance Report Concludes that Borrowers who Refinanced in 2014 will Save Approximately 5 Billion in Interest Payments
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
