This paper assesses the impact of the mortgage crisis on Chelsea, Massachusetts, a low-and moderate income community of 35,000 adjacent to Boston. After years of rapid growth, house prices started falling in 2005. According to our repeat-sales indices, by the end of 2009 prices had fallen by as...

The author theoretically and empirically explores the ethnic identity of descendants of the Indian traveler/Gipsies/Sinti in Slovenia who still represent a "tabula rasa" for the researchers. The author investigates the extent to which the Sinti ethnic particular identities sacralize the Sinti...