Mounting foreclosures and recent disclosures of abusive lending practices have led many states to adopt new anti-predatory lending laws. Researchers have examined the impact of such laws on credit flows and the cost of credit. This research extends the literature by examining if the market...

Inclusionary housing and community land trusts (CLTs) are two mechanisms used to increase the stock of affordable housing. This chapter examines the potential of these mechanisms to provide long-term (“durably”) affordable housing in the United States, where there is strong local government...

This paper provides the first estimates of housing price movements for Beijing in late pre-modern China. We hand-collect from archival sources transaction prices and other house attribute information from the 498 surviving house sale contracts for Beijing during the first two centuries of the...