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Housing market regulation has contributed to the worldwide triumph of home ownership

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Kohl, Sebastian - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 38, pp. 345-352

The present report presents new historical data based on country comparisons and research results regarding rent control and its long-term effect on the home ownership rate in 27 countries. Policy measures of rent control, protection against eviction, and housing space management have been...

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Rethinking Duties to Serve in Housing Finance

Levitin, Adam J. - 2015

In this chapter, we consider the role of duties-to-serve in the housing finance market -- the patchwork of obligations on lending institutions to reach out to traditionally underserved communities and borrowers. We review the current regulatory framework and history of various duties-to-serve,...

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The Housing Finance Revolution

Green, Richard K. - 2015

securitization. Elsewhere securitization has not developed. The US provided the underpinnings for its mortgage security … infrastructure with the creation of FNMA in 1938 and in order to create liquidity in the mortgage market required the standardization … of mortgage documentation and more fundamentally required that home mortgages within securities would be sufficiently …

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