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Investor purchases of single-family homes are particularly prevalent in neighborhoods with low sale prices and high vacancy, elevated mortgage denial rates, and higher shares of residents who are Black or Hispanic. In the most distressed neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Richmond, and Jacksonville, more than 1 in 5 homes sold go from homeowners to investors.

Investor Home Purchases and the Rising Threat to Owners and Renters: Tales From 3 Cities - Nowak Metro Finance Lab

Bruce Katz and Emily Dowdal

In the 1990s and early 2000s, commercial banks were using lending models for home mortgages that assigned zero probability to large declines in housing prices.2 Housing prices had never before fallen as far and as fast as they did beginning in 2007. But that’s what happened.

Naked Statistics

Charles Wheelan

Associations of workers and consumers would then consider the options available to them for enhancing productivity levels in the specific areas that concern them. New technologies might improve labor productivity in pencil factories, but require more rapid depletion of forest reserves. Meanwhile, a new way of organizing hospitals might result in less work for nurses, but at the cost of lower-quality elder care. Where do different associations of workers and consumers stand on these issues?

How to Make a Pencil

logicmag.io

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