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Save to My PortfolioThe Housing Crisis and Lessons for Monetary Policy

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

Save to My PortfolioDesigning Loan Modifications to Address the Mortgage Crisis and the Making Home Affordable Program

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

Save to My PortfolioState and Federal Policy in the Foreclosure Crisis

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...

SPEECH: Bruce Katz

Save to My PortfolioA New Generation of Federal Housing Policy

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.

INTERVIEW: Navtej Dhillon

Save to My PortfolioGlobal Economic Crisis: Mixed Forecast for Jordan and Syria

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...

PAPER: Anthony Downs

Save to My PortfolioCredit Crisis: The Sky is not Falling

October 2007

Despite troubles in the subprime mortgage industry, an otherwise healthy economy should avert a true credit crisis. This brief describes how there is no shortage of capital and why bailing out the lenders would merely encourage them to do it again.

PAPER: Barry P Bosworth

Save to My PortfolioThe Wealth of Older Americans and the Subprime Debacle

November 2009

Barry Bosworth and Rosanna Smart explore the consequences of the housing price bubble and its collapse for the wealth of older households, utilizing micro survey data to follow the rise in home values to 2007 and observing which households...

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Save to My PortfolioFacilitating Shared Appreciation Mortgages to Prevent Housing Crashes and Affordability Crises

September 2008

If current trends continue, today’s default crisis will soon be followed by an affordability crisis as an ever-increasing number of American households find themselves locked out of credit and unable to transition to homeownership. In this...

OPINION: Navtej Dhillon

Save to My PortfolioLight at the End of the Tunnel in Egypt's Marriage Crisis?

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...

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Save to My PortfolioAddressing the Foreclosure Crisis

March 14, 2008

The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a discussion on proposed policy responses to the mortgage-foreclosure problem. Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers offered remarks. Panelists evaluated several specific...

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