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Owner-occupied housing is said to be favored in the tax code because mortgage interest and property taxes can be deducted in the computation of one's income tax base in spite of the fact that the returns from owner- occupied housing = not taxed. The special tax treatment reduces the user cost of...
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In this paper we analyze the factors that affect the tenure choice of young adults, highlighting the impact of mortgage lender imposed borrowing constraints. The data set is a panel of youth age 20-33 for the years 1985-90. Our methods differ from most prior studies in many ways including...
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This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real constant-quality house prices in their localities of residence. We argue that increases in the real constant-quality house price have two offsetting effects on wealth. First, the...
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Earlier research has shown that lender income and wealth constraint ratios discourage homeownership. This empirical …, the measured impact on the homeownership rate of the constraints falls to only 4 percentage points. Further, FHA loans are … estimated to increase homeownership by only 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points …
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homeownership. The factors related to this increase are marriage, increased labor supply by married women, and gifts …
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and homeownership. The cost of shelter is an important determinant of whether youth live independently (apart from parents … and other nonrelated adults), and the cost of homeownership relative to renting is important to the tenure decision … lowered the homeownership rate among young households by 23 percent, which is equivalent to slowing the time to first …
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