Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs “investable” tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing.
Research
The Start-Up City
The author describes how entrepreneurs built the city of New York, and how they are the keys to its success in the future. Part of a special journal issue devoted to the future of cities.
Housing Policy in the Wake of the Crash
In this article the author examines aspects of U.S. housing policy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The author notes that between the years 2000 and 2010 the U.S.
Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom?
Between 1996 and 2006, real housing prices rose by 53 percent according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency price index.
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate.
The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Carbon dioxide emissions may create significant social harm because of global warming, yet American urban development tends to be in low density areas with very hot summers.
Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
Introduction to 'The Economics of Agglomeration'
Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation.
The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.
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