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Renters can change the culture of a neighborhood.

May 2, 2013, Alan Mallach, The Olympian

Metro Monitor - March 2013

March 28, 2013, Alec Friedhoff and Siddharth Kulkarni

Is Housing Finance Reform Coming at Last?

March 6, 2013, Michael Barr

The Ongoing and Hugely Risky Bailout of the Housing Market

March 1, 2013, William A. Galston

Increasing the Role of the Private Sector in Housing Finance

February 26, 2013, Phillip Swagel

Replacing the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction

February 26, 2013, Alan D. Viard

Want a Stronger Economic Recovery? Encourage More Home Refinancing

February 20, 2013, Karen Dynan

Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership among Baseline Renters: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

February 1, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key

Envisioning Home

January 30, 2013

American Households and the Continuing Economic Recovery

January 24, 2013, Karen Dynan and Mark S. Sniderman

The Future of Homeownership in the United States Featuring Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan

December 14, 2012

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Provide a Federal Life Line for America's Destabilized Neighborhoods

December 11, 2012, Alan Mallach and Jennifer S. Vey

Cut to Invest: Reform the Mortgage Interest Deduction to Invest in Innovation and Advanced Industries

December 6, 2012, Bruce Katz

Cut to Invest: Create New Bond and Tax Credit Programs to Restore Market Vitality to America's Distressed Cities and Neighborhoods

December 6, 2012, Alan Mallach

Strengthen Federalism: Enact Legislation Supporting Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing

November 13, 2012, Devashree Saha

Is a Household Debt Overhang Holding Back Consumption?

Spring 2012, Karen Dynan

Laying the Groundwork For Change: Demolition, Urban Strategy, and Policy Reform

September 24, 2012, Alan Mallach

How Bright is the Housing Bright Spot?

September 21, 2012, Karen Dynan

How We're Doing Ahead of the Presidential Election

August 26, 2012, Ted Gayer, Domenico Lombardi and Darrell M. West

Home prices haven't gone anywhere in many parts of the country. For households for whom the home was the main way in which they had saved, those households have not seen much of a recovery, and it's unclear how much of a recovery they are going to see.

July 23, 2012, Karen Dynan, U.S. News & World Report

Negative Equity Concentrated in a Few States

July 12, 2012, Ted Gayer

Middle Class Wealth: It's Not as Bad as It Looks

July 5, 2012, Scott Winship

New Monitor Reveals Mountain West Region Outperforms Nation's Recovery

June 28, 2012, Mark Muro and Kenan Fikri

To Track the Nation's Sluggish Recovery, the MetroMonitor Goes Interactive

June 27, 2012, Mark Muro and Alec Friedhoff

Amid a patchy and still anemic recovery nationwide, the Mountain West’s metropolitan areas performed somewhat better than the rest of the country in the first quarter of 2012. While there is definite variation, the region continued its steady recovery in the early months of the year.

June 27, 2012, Mark Muro, Phoenix Business Journal