Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath; Governor's Commission for Recovery, Reconstruction, Renewal; RAND's Role; RAND's Approach; Report Outline; CHAPTER TWO- Affordable Housing and Lessons Learned from Other Natural Disasters; What Is Affordable Housing?…”

Materias: “…University of Ibadan Student housing Case studies…”

“…Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and 'villages' being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Housing and the Metropolis: Law and Policy Perspectives -- 1 The Rise of the Homevoters: How the Growth Machine Was Subverted by OPEC and Earth Day -- 2 How Land Use Law Impedes Transportation Innovation -- 3 The Unassailable Case against Affordable Housing Mandates -- Part II Housing as Community: Stability, Change, and Perceptions -- 4 Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Historic Preservation -- 5 Historic Preservation and Its Even Less Authentic Alternative -- 6 Losing My Religion: Church Condo Conversions and Neighborhood Change -- 7 How Housing Dynamics Shape Neighborhood Perceptions -- Part III Housing as Wealth Building: Consumers and Housing Finance -- 8 Behavioral Leasing: Renter Equity as an Intermediate Housing Form -- 9 Housing, Mortgages, and Retirement -- 10 The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Disparate Impact Lending Litigation -- Part IV Housing and the Financial System: Risks and Returns -- 11 Household Debt and Defaults from 2000 to 2010: The Credit Supply View -- 12 Representations and Warranties: Why They Did Not Stop the Crisis -- 13 When the Invisible Hand Isn't a Firm Hand: Disciplining Markets That Won't Discipline Themselves…”

Materias:

“…This paper assesses national public expenditure on housing in Poland, within the context of recent trends in the housing market. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Foreword -- The OECD-MMR housing survey of municipalities in the Czech Republic -- Policies for housing affordability in cities in the Czech Republic -- Overview of housing affordability in cities in the Czech Republic -- Executive summary -- Assessment and recommendations…”

“…Despite these measures, house prices remain high and the risk to the banking sector elevated. …”

“…The paper examines the linkages between housing markets and the business cycle in OECD countries, focusing on how differences in the degree of resilience to economic shocks can be affected by the structural characteristics of housing and mortgage markets. …”

“…The Finnish housing market is volatile. After declining significantly as the global financial crisis unfolded, housing prices and investment recovered to reach new peaks. …”

“…In this paper we describe the main features of the French social housing system as viewed from abroad, and place it within the context of systems in other major developed countries, particularly in Europe. …”

“…Aside from interest rates, these include measures of overheating, such as the gap between real house prices and their long-run trend and the rate of change in real house prices in the recent past. …”

“…Results suggest that real house prices tend to rise proportionally with real household incomes, while declines in structural unemployment and real interest rates are associated with higher real house prices. …”

“…The inflation measure used by the European Central Bank excludes housing costs that are borne by home owners even though they make up more than a tenth of household final consumption expenditure in the euro area. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Housing finance in Poland by Karol Skiba -- Housing finance in Hungary by Andras Bethlendi and Gergely Kiss -- Housing finance in Czech Republic by Danielle Grabmullerova -- Housing finance in Slovak Republic by Dana Rigaszova -- Housing finance in Lithuania -- Housing finance in Lativa by Ilze Osa -- Housing finance in Estonia by Jana Kask, Tarmo Klettneberg, Lembit Olev -- Housing finance in Slovenia by Barbara Staric-Strajnar -- Housing finance in Coratia by Mladen Mirko Tepus -- Housing finance in Romania by Diana Popescu, Ion Bejan, Mihaela Kalogerakos -- Housing finance in Ukraine by Oleksiy pylypets, Pavlo Matiyash -- Development of mortgage system in Kazakhstan by Anuar Karpykov…”

“…This paper highlights the factors that limit or increase cyclical divergence in the euro area and reviews one policy area that is important in fostering a speedy adjustment to shocks: the transmission of monetary policy via the housing market. A high interest rate sensitivity of housing markets is beneficial as monetary policy is more powerful in damping cyclical fluctuations overall in the euro area. …”