Despite a recent expansion in housing finance, Brazil still faces a severe housing shortage, especially among lower …-income people, and it is important to examine the development, limitations and prospects of the country's housing finance market … contractual obligations or is merely an effect of the higher level of housing loans imposed by the government on financial …

In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the … main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the macroeconomic environment in order to advance a policy … agenda for housing policy reform. The demand for housing was calculated and tenure choice was analyzed. Structural …

co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement …

consistent with micro evidence on housing choices. We find that a decline in the rate of household formation, increased delay in …

and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as …

This working paper comments on Karsten Jeske and Dirk Krueger's 'Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Implicit …

-generation model with housing. We find that the long-run importance of the introduction of new mortgage products for the aggregate …