Issue: Housing

Housing policy has played a central role in recent decades in helping more Americans move up the economic ladder. Improving the cost effectiveness of rental housing subsidies can help these programs serve more low-income Americans. In addition, policymakers can improve prospects for homeownership and reduce housing-related crises by encouraging mortgage options that are more transparent and better serve consumer interests.

Events

• The Future of Housing and Credit Markets. A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion, September 23, 2008.

Housing Discussion Papers

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

• An Opt-Out Home Mortgage System
  by Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir
  
  
• Facilitating Shared Appreciation Mortgages to Prevent Housing Crashes and Affordability Crises
  by Andrew Caplin, Noël B. Cunningham, Mitchell Engler, and Frederick Pollock
  
  
• Getting More From Low Income Housing Assistance
  by Edgar O. Olsen
  
  

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

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