This study compares recent home price dynamics of two countries, Korea and the U.S., in terms of underlying determinants of price variations, over time and across locations, along with dynamic adjustment patterns of disequilibrating price shocks. In particular, 2-stage error correction models...

Introduction -- Statement of purposes : chronology-evolution housing policy-politics-economics -- Literature review : eighty-eight years of U.S. housing policy -- U.S. housing economics -- Research questions and hypotheses : housing policy programs, politics, and economics -- Methodology :...

1 Housing Affordability Crisis: The United States -- 2 Homelessness, Housing Public Policy and Urban Planning -- 3 The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program -- 4 The Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Program -- 5 Housing the Homeless -- 6 Financial Feasibility Analysis: Planning for the...

The housing crisis -- The breakdown of mortgage servicing & loss mitigation -- Zombie mortgages & abandoned properties -- The benefits & harms of intervention -- Rethinking home : housing post-crisis -- Foreclosure or a more sustainable mortgage? -- Picking up the pieces & revitalizing...