PAPER:
Douglas J Elliott,Martin Neil Baily
November 23, 2009
What really caused the great economic crisis of the past year? Should the Fed’s powers be stripped away, per legislation sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul that recently passed the House Financial Services Committee? In an effort to help inform the...
TOPIC
In the midst of a mortgage and foreclosure crisis, many families cannot find homes at an affordable price in a location accessible to work and good schools. This lack of affordable housing underscores other challenges, such as improving education...
EVENT
April 21, 2008
On April 21, the Brookings Institution and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hosted a presentation of recent cross-country IMF research on the housing sector and monetary policy, as released in the April 2008 World Economic Outlook.
PAPER:
Karen Dynan
October 2009
In order to shore up the housing market and prevent foreclsoures, the government has instituted the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Larry Cordell, Karen Dynan, Andreas Lehnert, Nellie Liang and Eileen Mauskopf find that HAMP's key...
SPEECH:
Alice M Rivlin
May 28, 2008
The following remarks were delivered by Alice Rivlin during a luncheon speech at the State on Foreclosures and Housing Solutions hosted by the National Governors Association. Illustrating the effects of both the credit and foreclosure crisis...
TOPIC
Homeownership in America is among the highest in the world, due in part to widespread availability of mortgages. But the slowdown in the housing market is leaving many recent, riskier borrowers unable to meet their payments, and rising defaults...
INTERVIEW:
Navtej Dhillon
December 01, 2008
Jordan and Syria have recently faced similar economic challenges such as absorbing large numbers of Iraqi refugees and fighting high inflation. Yet the global economic slowdown may have unique implications for development and reform in each...
OPINION:
Navtej Dhillon
November 23, 2008
Navtej Dhillon and Ragui Assaad share findings from new research by the Middle East Youth Initiative indicating that a series of reforms in Egypt has given young people easier access to rental housing. With housing more affordable so, too, is...
SPEECH:
Bruce Katz
June 29, 2009
Before the Center for Housing Policy’s Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy in Chicago, IL, Bruce Katz outlined a new architecture for national housing policy for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
TOPIC
... associated with the recession, particularly in the financial and housing sectors; how ... to reform the financial sector in the wake of the recent economic crisis. ...
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