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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Foreclosures"”.
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Three essays on mortgage foreclosures
… However, many quality-of-life issues posed by foreclosures may not be reflected in the prices of nearby sales. This paper uses new data from Boston, Massachusetts on constituent complaints and requests for public services made to City government departments, matched with sale transactions, …
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Three essays investigating post-bubble housing market: prices and foreclosures
This dissertation investigates the impacts of foreclosures on the housing price dynamics after the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007 in the United States. Following a sharp dip in housing prices, the number of foreclosures increased dramatically. The housing market experienced an unprecedented …
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One-to-four family home foreclosures in South Dorchester : the role of the secondary mortgage market
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Distressed Sales and Housing Prices: a Metro and Regional Analysis
… significant, inverse relationship between foreclosures and housing prices. Such research has been primarily focused on specific, local markets. This thesis expands on the literature, featuring housing and macro data for 127 metropolitan areas. This thesis constructs hypotheses on the …
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Mapping impact : an analysis of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Land Trust
… Dudley neighborhood, specifically with regard to foreclosures, vacant lots, owner occupancy, and housing affordability? It also attempts to measure the land trust's impact spatially and quantitatively and isolate it from economic and social changes in the surrounding neighborhood and the broader …
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The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan
… housing market and the proliferation of mortgage foreclosures across the country. Foreclosures occurred in urban, suburban, and rural communities, but had a particularly devastating impact on larger, older cities and their low and moderate-income neighborhoods. These cities had been dealing with …
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A Dream Denied: The Fight Against the Mass Eviction of Families in Chicago and Jacksonville, USA
… organizations and their influence in shaping the foreclosures for racialized people, low-income families, and economically disadvantaged communities. In keeping with the traditions of anti-racist theory, I situate race at the forefront of my analysis of the policies and programs introduced to stem …
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The Geographic and Social Distance in Finance
… 1988, 1990) to analyze data of residential foreclosures at county level to account for the unusual concentration of foreclosures observed in the south Pacific, east North Central, and south Atlantic regions. We find that spatial correlation plays an important role in explaining the large …
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Sustainable infrastructure technologies: impact and policy
… Site Remediation Program in the presence of foreclosures and demonstrates the potential consequences of not controlling for time-varying unobservables in hedonic regressions. Failure to control for incidence of foreclosures, which can act as a time-varying correlated unobservable, can lead to …
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An Economic Analysis of Evolving Health Hazards
… model to analyze the economic (income and home foreclosures) and biological (mosquitoes) factors associated with human WNV. Tests reveal the presence of spatial autocorrelation in the dependent variable (human WNV). The presence of this phenomenon implies that WNV in neighboring counties do …
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Mortgage Default in Southern California: Examining Distressed Borrower's Decision Making and Market Contagion
… by an unprecedented number of loan defaults and foreclosures. Recent studies have identified two major theories of default--the "double trigger" hypothesis, where negative equity and an income shock are necessary conditions for default--and "strategic default" where negative equity is a …
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Essays on the housing market
… market and the discounts associated with home foreclosures. I document sizeable foreign investment in the housing market in Cape Town between 2011 and 2018, showing that these investors sort into the wealthier suburbs in the city that have had historically large communities of foreign …
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Here comes the SUN : a case study of the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts
… levels to respond to the negative effects of foreclosures on households and neighborhoods. To date, the impact of these prevention and mitigation programs has been small compared to the scale of the problem, presenting a substantial opportunity for new models for addressing foreclosures. In …
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Risky business: the foreclosure crisis, Asian Americans, and Asian American-serving community-based organizations
… can prevent accruing further costs related to foreclosures and help their economic stability. The study also raises questions about the effectiveness of devolution as a government strategy in housing service provision when foreclosures are a complicated and time-consuming process. With growing …
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Backdoors and Trapdoors: The Trappings of Homo/Transsexuality in Artists’ Film, Video and Photography, c.1989-1999
… and material reality, under and against queer’s foreclosures. As queer and transgender were crystallising into new identarian and disciplinary objects in the 1990s, this thesis observes the significance of artistic practice and visual theory as a crucial site through which these terms were …
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Collateral Enforcement and the Secondary Market
… reduces the incidence of forbearance, increases foreclosures, and limits creditor incentives to cure loans.</p>
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Rethinking homeownership : why alternative tenure strategies are needed to stabilize neighborhoods in Lawrence, MA
… with Lawrence's growing challenge with foreclosures and research on low-income homeownership, the findings of this thesis demonstrate that focusing on homeownership strategies in Lawrence and other smaller, post-industrial cities may not lead to more stable neighborhoods. To the …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
… shaped by a dead-weight loss caused by foreclosures and an information friction on house prices. The main finding is that a subsidy-only policy would have generated welfare gains of up to 0.4% in consumption equivalent terms when compared to the HAMP and TARP benchmark. In the second …
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L'azione revocatoria della scissione societaria
… (e.g. a sale) and “scissione societaria”, the foreclosures - set out by Italian and EU law - regarding the invalidity of “scissione societaria” as well as a (supposed) principal of typicality of the special remedies which protect the company’s creditors in the case of “scissione”. The second …
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Application of Agent-Based Modeling: Simulating Financial Systemic Risk and Contagion within Housing and Financial Markets
… the landmark financial crisis and epidemic of foreclosures. The blend of available financial products to consumers (i.e., ARM versus Fixed-Rate) certainly influences demand to purchase properties given that ARM products are more affordable than fixed-rate products; however, these specific …
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