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Jul 12 2022 Past Event State and Local Programs to Advance Homeownership Opportunity to Narrow Racial Disparities Housing

Publication May 26, 2022 Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information Rapidly improving data and models are giving homeowners more information about their disaster risk while also increasing insurance premiums for the highest risk homes. I study the economic consequences of using better flood risk models to more accurately identify and price flood insurance for high-risk homes. State & Local Finance

Article May 26, 2022 The Financial Burdens of Property Taxes: Evidence from Philadelphia Property taxes are an essential source of revenue for U.S. local governments, generating more than $547 billion in 2018. While local elected officials use these taxes to fund public goods and services, their constituents find them burdensome. Housing State & Local Finance

May 17 2022 Past Event Federal Programs to Advance Homeownership Opportunity to Narrow Racial Disparities Housing

Article April 27, 2022 Faculty Spotlight: Jessie Handbury Jessie Handbury is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at The Wharton School, NBER Research Fellow, and Penn IUR Faculty Fellow. Her work focuses on the spatial distribution of consumption amenities: the goods and services that are available to consumers in different neighborhoods (e.g., the mix of restaurants, retail, nightlife, public services, neighborhood aesthetics, etc.). State & Local Finance

Article March 30, 2022 Wachter Receives Quigley Medal Susan Wachter won AREUEA's 2022 John M. Quigley Medal for Advancing Real Estate and Urban Economics. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance

Faculty Fellow Benjamin Keys

Rowan Family Foundation Professor of Real Estate and Finance

State & Local Finance

Fellow Anne Bovaird Nevins

Director of Economic Development, Accelerator for America

State & Local Finance

Oct 26 2021 Past Event Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today's Land Use Regulations Urban Development

Article May 19, 2021 Housing Search and Rental Market Intermediation Housing State & Local Finance

Article May 19, 2021 Essays in Urban and Public Economics State & Local Finance

Article March 24, 2021 Mortgage Securitization in the Era of COVID-19 A set of papers edited by Urban Institute Vice President Laurie Goodman and Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter and recently published in Housing Policy Debate reflects on strategies to maintain and advance the reforms that have strengthened the GSEs. The peer-reviewed articles address both the current and future performance of the GSEs along several themes. Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Commentary (Levi) Gerron S. Levi Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Commentary (Layton) Don Layton Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 FHFA’s Capital Rule Is a Step Backward Mark Zandi Jim Parrott Bob Ryan Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Analysis of the Proposed 2020 FHFA Rule on Enterprise Capital Laurie Goodman Edward Golding Jun Zhu Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 The Mortgage Market as a Stimulus Channel in the Covid-19 Crisis Laurie Goodman Susan Wachter Edward Golding Richard Green Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Evaluating the Benefits of a Streamlined Refinance Program Kristopher Gerardi Lara Loewenstein Paul S. Willen Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 Mortgage Securitization in the Covid-19 Era: Introduction Laurie Goodman Susan Wachter Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper December 21, 2020 GSEs: Their Viability as Public Utilities Susan Wachter Richard Cooperstein Housing State & Local Finance

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