Journal Article
Advocating for the Disabled: Interview with Jean Langendorf, Easter Seals of Central Texas
Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2011)
Jean Langendorf, vice president of community and housing services for Easter Seals of Central Texas in Austin, has over 25 years of experience working to improve the lives of people with physical and mental impairments. She is widely respected as one of the state's leading advocates for the disabled.
e-Perspectives , Volume 11 , Issue 4

Journal Article
Commentary
Wachter, Susan M. (2003-06)
This paper was presented at the conference "Policies to Promote Affordable Housing," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, February 7, 2002. It was part of Session 4: Housing Subsidies and Finance, and is a commentary on "Comparing the costs of federal housing assistance programs" by Denise DiPasquale, Dennis Fricke and Daniel Garcia-Diaz.
Economic Policy Review , Issue Jun , Pages 167-168

Journal Article
A brief on emerging affordable rental housing trends in economically stressed Chicago communities
Berry, Michael (2012-12)
For decades, nonprofit housing and consumer-focused organizations have worked in low- and moderate-income (LMI) areas to address improvident mortgage lending practices that have led to high rates of vacancy and unstable neighborhoods. Questionable lending is not a new problem in LMI areas, in short, but the pace of this lending in LMI areas increased as the last decade?s housing bubble inflated. Many unsound lending practices (including failure to prevent fraudulent use of primary residence mortgages to finance investment property1) spread to mainstream housing markets in the first half of ...
Profitwise , Issue Dec , Pages 9-10

Journal Article
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act: past accomplishments and future regulatory challenges
Apgar, William C.; Duda, Mark (2003-06)
This paper was presented at the conference "Policies to Promote Affordable Housing," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, February 7, 2002. It was part of Session 4: Housing Subsidies and Finance.
Economic Policy Review , Issue Jun , Pages 169-191

Working Paper
An analysis of the neighborhood impacts of a mortgage assistance program: a spatial hedonic model
Murdoch, James C.; Ma, Jielai; Di, Wenhua (2010)
Down-payment or closing-cost assistance is an effective program in addressing the wealth constraints of low- and moderate-income homebuyers. However, the spillover effect of such programs on the neighborhood is unknown. This paper estimates the impact of the City of Dallas Mortgage Assistance Program (MAP) on nearby home values using a hedonic model of home sales from 1990 to 2006. We define neighborhoods of 1,000 feet around each sale and estimate the average differences in sales prices between neighborhoods with various numbers of MAP properties before and after their appearance. We find ...
Working Papers , Paper 1001

Journal Article
Spotlight: Educational opportunity: Does low-income housing tax credit hurt nearby schools?
Murdoch, James C.; Di, Wenhua (2011-01)
The largest federal program designed to increase the rental housing supply for poor working families helps them find living space in decent neighborhoods with good schools. It also encounters frequent neighborhood opposition.
Southwest Economy , Issue Q1 , Pages 15

Working Paper
The impact of LIHTC program on local schools
Murdoch, James C.; Di, Wenhua (2010)
The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program has developed over two million rental homes for low-income households since 1986. The perception of deterioration in school quality has been a main reason for community opposition to LIHTC projects in middle-and upper-income areas. In this paper, we examine the impact of LIHTC projects on the nearby school performance. The LIHTC projects tend to have positive and statistically significant impacts on school performance the year they are placed in service and this finding is robust to various specifications. Offsetting these, the one year lag ...
Working Papers , Paper 1006

Journal Article
New arguments for employer-assisted housing
Afshar, Anna (2006)
In some parts of the country, innovation and experimentation have helped employer-assisted housing (EAH) programs gain momentum, providing New Englanders additional rationale for implementing these programs. This article describes how EAH works, its potential benefits, how it is being implemented around the country, and how our region can make better use of these programs to promote competitiveness and affordable housing.
New England Community Developments

Journal Article
Innovation can spark low-income markets
Wilson, Glenda J. (2010-04)
Central Banker , Issue Spring

Journal Article
Housing production subsidies and neighborhood revitalization: New York City's ten-year capital plan for housing
Voicu, Ioan; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Schill, Michael H.; Schwartz, Amy Ellen (2003-06)
This paper was presented at the conference "Policies to Promote Affordable Housing," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, February 7, 2002. It was part of Session 3: The Impact of Housing on People and Places.
Economic Policy Review , Issue Jun , Pages 71-85