In a speech at the REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization Summit, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President and CEO Sandra Pianalto discussed the weak housing market in her region and some of the ideas that have emerged from the Bank's research and outreach efforts...

A quantile regression model is used to identify the main neighborhood characteristics associated with high foreclosure rates in weak market neighborhoods, specifically for two counties in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania. A decomposition technique by Machado and Mata (2005) allows separating...