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Foreclosure and Other Essays
<p>My dad had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I first knew something was wrong with him in 1995. He was 49 then, and I was just about to start the eighth grade. That’s the summer his company backed him into a corner and told him to quit or be fired. He had worked there 14 years. They said his …
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From Homeownership to Foreclosure: Exploring the Meanings Homeowners Associate with the Lived Experience of Foreclosure
… associated with their lived experience of foreclosure. In the wake of the 2006 housing crash and 2008 Great Recession, questions have been posed about the continued efficacy of homeownership as an asset-based strategy. In addition, the conversation has been dominated by traditional economic …
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Spacial analysis of foreclosure and neighborhood characteristics in Miami metropolitan area, Florida
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A new dream : redefining homeownership through the Post Foreclosure Eviction Defense Campaign
Just a few years ago photos of streets lined with foreclosure signs and anecdotes about families who had lost their savings were on the front page of every major newspaper. Many of these stories profiled immigrants who had been taken advantage of by predatory lenders. In Boston alone, 81% of all …
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The Phenomenon of Identity Foreclosure Among Learner-athletes in a South African Context
… study to explore the phenomenon of identity foreclosure in a sport school setting and tertiary institutions. The identity foreclosure phenomenon is an identity status defined by the premature ending of self-exploration and self-definition (Marcia, 1966). The study included 10 learner-athletes …
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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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Essays on vertical foreclosure, cartel stability and the structural determinants of oligopolistic behavior
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1988.
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Risky business: the foreclosure crisis, Asian Americans, and Asian American-serving community-based organizations
The 2007 foreclosure crisis has strained the U.S. economy with high foreclosure rates and property loss affecting many communities. However, there is a dearth of research on how the crisis has impacted Asian American communities, even though they are geographically concentrated in metropolitan …
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Investing in the post-foreclosure housing market: how neighborhood characteristics and real estate actors affect recovery
… the housing market continues to recover from the foreclosure crisis, an opportunity arises to examine how different hart-hit neighborhoods have managed to recover. This is a two-part study that examines real estate investor activity among REO properties in the Chicago region. The first part …
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Establishing an immanent counterhumanism for the un-foreclosure of the future: Deleuze, Mbembe, Hartman and the anarchic Open World
This dissertation addresses the political form of the human, its multiply-stratified nature, and the world it makes up - by focusing first on a tension between two broad kinds of approaches in philosophy of race that intend to unmake that stratification. One, called counterhumanism and exemplified …
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Three essays on mortgage foreclosures
… several aspects of the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. The first paper examines a 90-day "right-to-cure" policy adopted in Massachusetts to slow the foreclosure process and encourage borrowers and lenders to reach agreements for mortgage modifications. Using a difference-in- …
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Here comes the SUN : a case study of the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts
Since the onset of the current U.S. foreclosure crisis, a variety of strategies have been developed at the federal, state, and local 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 …
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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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Three Essays on Transfer Pricing
… assuming that the choices of vertical foreclosure and vertical supply are exogenously determined. In vertical foreclosure scenario, it is more likely for the MNE to charge the prohibitive transfer price when there are transfer pricing rules than when there are not. In vertical supply …
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Relationship between familism and ego identity development of Puerto Rican and immigrant Puerto Rican adolescents
… four identity statuses: achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion. It was also hypothesized that familism, gender, age, parent's education and occupation, and number of years living in the United States mainland affect an individual's identity status. There were two sample groups; one …
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Examining price appreciation in foreclosed properties
This thesis examines foreclosure sales of single-family homes in eight communities in the Boston Metro area and the price appreciation from purchase of a foreclosed property through to a subsequent fair market, arms-length sale. The post foreclosure sale price appreciation of the foreclosed …
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The relationship between ego identity status, prestige, and ability and the occupational aspirations of high school seniors
… status (identity achievement or identity foreclosure), prestige of destination occupation, and environmental congruence of 198 high school seniors was assessed. All students came from rural and urban midwestern high schools. No significant correlations were found to exist between prestige …
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Occupational Identity Assessment Among Middle and Late Adolescents
… Identity Statuses (Achievement, Moratorium, Foreclosure, and Diffusion) for the occupational area. In addition, the relationships of selected variables to these statuses were investigated.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Random class groups of students (N=417) from six selected high schools and …
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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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