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Land Use Prof Blog
Planning for a more diverse future with a diversity of housing …
[“New Suburbia”: This is one of a series on the changing aspects of suburbia.] While most reports have emphasized the demand aspects of the home mortgage crisis -– homebuyers of…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Freddie and Fannie’s Role in the Subprime Crisis
What is the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the subprime crisis? They are government-chartered, publicly owned corporation, and therein lies the conflict. Can they bail out the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Five grand for a short commute … but which way?
It is always more palatable for government to give a “tax break” for behavior it wants to encourage, rather than to impose extra tax for behavior that it doesn’t. …
Securities Law Prof Blog
Fannie and Freddie Come to the Rescue of the Mortgage Market
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have not been known as model corporate citizens in recent years, as both were emboiled in major accounting frauds. In addition, policy makers worried that…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Great JPI briefs on public safety research
Main November 9, 2007Great JPI briefs on public safety researchI just noticed at this website that the Justice Policy Institute has now released three effective briefs in its "Series on…
Land Use Prof Blog
The San Francisco Bay area is now closed; please move elsewhere …
Conservationists and developers frequently clash over the designation of “open space” in a metropolitan area. For the former group, more open space discourages sprawl, helps nature, and provides for…
Land Use Prof Blog
Changes in attitude, changes in altitude (and density) …
With housing credit now tighter (despite the Fed’s recent rate cut), the United States may experience a breather from its longstanding national goal of relentlessly increasing the homeownership rate. …
Land Use Prof Blog
Exclusion + bubble + single adults = a demand for apartments!
What happens when exclusionary zoning meets a housing equity bubble, which in turns meets a boom in immigration and single-adult households? What happens is that huge houses are built,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Two years later, on the Gulf Coast …
On the second anniversary of the flooding of southern Louisiana and Mississippi, the problems of reconstruction are so broad and complicated that it’s difficult to say anything new. On…
Land Use Prof Blog
What to do about the housing slump?
Economists say that that the housing slump is now imperiling the entire American economy. Although government can't do much more to improving the housing market, what should government do…