Furman Center in the News

Date Title Source
11/05/10 Will Cuomo’s Land Banks Help Bed-Stuy? The Local
10/27/10 Unfinished Business: Updating CRA (PDF, 33 KB) US Banker
10/14/10 Revise the CRA’s Rules to Make It More Relevant (PDF, 36 KB) American Banker
10/11/10 The Economic Importance of Being Educated (PDF, 4 MB) Forefront
10/05/10 Foreclosure in the Family Harms School Performance, Report Finds (PDF, 44 KB) The Wall Street Journal Metropolis
10/04/10 Foreclosures Taking Toll on More City School Kids (PDF, 41 KB) Crain’s New York
10/04/10 More City Students Affected by Foreclosures (PDF, 13 KB) WNYC
10/03/10 Southeast Queens is Foreclosure Central (PDF, 45 KB) Crain’s New York
09/15/10 How the 30-year Mortgage Came to Be Marketplace
09/10/10 Comptroller Liu And Other Leaders Press Banks On Foreclosures (PDF, 3 KB) Black Star News
09/10/10 Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling wants Fannie Mae, FreddieMac gone (PDF, 25 KB) The Dallas Morning News
09/04/10 Bedford-Stuyvesant: Buyers Have Upper Hand (PDF, 200 KB) The Wall Street Journal
08/23/10 Beyond the Poverty Line (PDF, 4 MB) Stanford Social Innovation Review
08/18/10 Mortgage Role for U.S. Is Affirmed The New York Times
08/18/10 Treasury, Lenders Seek to Keep Government Role in Housing Fix (PDF, 137 KB) Bloomberg.com
08/17/10 Geithner: Housing System Needs Government Support Marketwatch
08/17/10 Geithner Calls for Housing Finance Reform The Financial Times
08/01/10 Purchasing Power Changes Hands (PDF, 312 KB) The Real Deal
08/01/10 Brokers Get Creative to Attract House Hunters The Real Deal
07/29/10 Urban Land Use: Looking Beyond the Charter Commission Urban Omnibus
07/25/10 The Roller-Coaster Ride Called a Short Sale (PDF, 525 KB) The New York Times
07/22/10 Planners Tackle Big Questions About How to Shape NYC Development Streetsblog.org
07/01/10 Like a Broken Record: 100 Years of Busts (PDF, 118 KB) The Real Deal
06/23/10 Low-income housing development fuels economic gains in distressed neighborhoods, stabilizes families (PDF, 162 KB) Local Initiatives Support Corporation
06/23/10 Affordable Housing Pays Off for City Crain’s New York Business
06/21/10 A Housing Price Collapse in Queens New York is Almost Certain (PDF, 122 KB) Real Estate Channel
06/15/10 Jonathan Miller Podcast Interview with Furman Center Resident Research Fellow Mark Willis Housing Helix
06/10/10 Rep. Clarke Applauds the Passage of the Federal Housing Administration Reform Act (PDF, 31 KB) Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke
06/10/10 Higher Ground (PDF, 148 KB) The Wall Street Journal
05/27/10 New Construction Is Farther From Green Space (PDF, 31 KB) The New York Times
05/21/10 City Foreclosures Climb In First Quarter (PDF, 60 KB) Wall Street Journal
05/17/10 Saga of the Worthless Condo (PDF, 52 KB) City Limits
05/09/10 Demand Grows for F.H.A. Mortgages (PDF, 43 KB) The New York Times
04/22/10 Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Not So Green, Critics Say (PDF, 69 KB) NBC
04/21/10 How ‘Transit-Oriented Development’ Will Put More New Yorkers in Cars (PDF, 83 KB) Gotham Gazette
04/11/10 The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York New York Magazine
04/01/10 How Credible is Case-Shiller? (PDF, 86 KB) The Real Deal
03/29/10 E. Flatbush is Rail Far (PDF, 29 KB) NY Post
03/25/10 Study: New York Building Boom Less Dramatic Than in Other Cities (PDF, 19 KB) WNYC
03/25/10 City Added 170,000 Housing Units During Boom Crain’s New York Business
03/25/10 Housing Boom Brings 170K New Units to NYC (PDF, 36 KB) The Real Deal
03/25/10 Study Shows Building Boom Before Market Crashed (PDF, 25 KB) New York Times
03/22/10 Study Finds Racial Disparity in Rezonings (PDF, 23 KB) WNYC
03/22/10 Despite Much Rezoning, Scant Change in Residential Capacity (PDF, 43 KB) New York Times
03/15/10 Mentally Ill Look for Home in NYC Metro
03/14/10 Picking Up the Pieces Crain’s
02/22/10 City’s New Plan on Affordable Housing: Build Less, Preserve More (PDF, 35 KB) The New York Times
02/22/10 Bloomberg Shifts Affordable Housing Focus (PDF, 39 KB) NY1
02/22/10 Bloomberg Retools Affordable MF Program Globe Street
02/18/10 Shaping the Next New York: The Promise of Bloomberg’s Rezonings Streetsblog
02/10/10 Where Did the Stimulus Funds Go? (PDF, 44 KB) El Diario
02/09/10 Jesse Jackson Walks Through Overtown for Change WLRN
02/08/10 Bushwick is Dying (PDF, 55 KB) El Diario
02/07/10 The Bigger Little Italy (PDF, 59 KB) New York Times
02/07/10 City Slow to Recover from Housing Market Collapse; Buys Just 8 Homes Out of Promised 115 (PDF, 430 KB) New York Daily News
02/02/10 Jumping on the REO Wagon (PDF, 91 KB) The Real Deal
01/20/10 Mayor Bloomberg Falls Short on 2009 Goals, Ready to Try Again with State of the City Address on Tap (PDF, 176 KB) NY Daily News
01/17/10 Making History in a Brooklyn Neighborhood (PDF, 58 KB) New York Times
01/15/10 REOs Rising Along With Foreclosures Brownstoner
01/14/10 Number of Bank-Owned Homes in New York Rising (PDF, 158 KB) New York Observer
01/14/10 NYC Foreclosed Homes Owned by Lenders Spikes (PDF, 36 KB) Crain’s New York Business
01/14/10 Foreclosures Draw Flippers, Study Shows (PDF, 26 KB) New York Times
01/01/10 Higher-priced Homes Get Turned on Their Heads The Real Deal
01/01/10 Bronx Distress Hits Middle-income Areas Hardest (PDF, 85 KB) The Real Deal
01/01/10 A Manhattan Apartment for the Price of a Car? (PDF, 107 KB) The Real Deal
12/22/09 Jobless Middle-Class New Yorkers Struggle to Get By (PDF, 68 KB) Wall Street Journal
12/21/09 The Top Stories of 2010 (PDF, 137 KB) Gotham Gazette
12/13/09 Unwelcome Mat Out for Project to House Chronically Homeless (PDF, 68 KB) Dallas Morning News
12/11/09 New York Gets Crushed in Year of Record Lows (PDF, 91 KB) The Real Deal
12/06/09 The Williamsburg Elixir (PDF, 64 KB) NY Magazine
12/03/09 Bronxites Want Action on Foreclosure Crisis (PDF, 45 KB) Norwood News
11/30/09 Foreclosures Continue to Threaten Neighborhoods (PDF, 134 KB) Gotham Gazette
11/30/09 Following New York’s Foreclosure Frenzy (PDF, 85 KB) Real Deal
11/26/09 The Neediest Cases; Extending a Hand to Those Hurt in the Subprime Mess (PDF, 42 KB) The New York Times
11/23/09 Race and Space: Segregation and Foreclosure (PDF, 20 KB) Huffington Post
11/20/09 Bloomberg Busts Out the Cash (PDF, 50 KB) The Indypendent
11/19/09 Study: Subprime Loans Went to Minority-Heavy Neighborhoods (PDF, 21 KB) New York Observer
11/19/09 Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans (PDF, 32 KB) New York Times
11/16/09 For Homeowners, Promised Help Rarely Arrives City Limits
11/04/09 Groups Urge Opening of Vacant Condos to the Poor (PDF, 31 KB) The New York Times
10/31/09 Where 30 Is Ancient, Youthful at 80 (PDF, 51 KB) The New York Times
10/27/09 Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III (PDF, 411 KB) Huffington Post
10/19/09 Behind a Stolid Facade, The Whole Nation’s Crisis (PDF, 60 KB) City Limits
10/15/09 As City Adds Housing for Poor, Market Subtracts It (PDF, 64 KB) The New York Times
10/05/09 Affordable Housing, Not Included (PDF, 233 KB) Gotham Gazette
10/02/09 Foreclosure Catching Up to Renters (PDF, 48 KB) Metro
09/29/09 Rezoning New York (PDF, 31 KB) The Brian Lehrer Show
09/28/09 Holding On to Stability in Queens (PDF, 33 KB) The New York Times
09/27/09 The Micro-Economy of Union Square (PDF, 224 KB) New York Magazine
09/01/09 Real Trouble Lies in Rising Default Rates (PDF, 250 KB) The Real Deal
09/01/09 Breaking the Co-op Barrier (PDF, 114 KB) The Real Deal
08/13/09 Banks Abandon Foreclosed Homes CNN
08/12/09 Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York Continue to Reel From Mortgage Foreclosures and Job Losses (PDF, 73 KB) Feet in 2 Worlds
08/12/09 Condo Foreclosures Up, More Still Ahead (PDF, 81 KB) Metro
07/06/09 Jonathan Miller interviews Vicki Been The Housing Helix podcast with Jonathan Miller
06/25/09 Mortgage Scams Still a Threat (PDF, 226 KB) Your Nabe
06/24/09 Harlem Wants Residents to go Shopping (PDF, 54 KB) Marketplace
06/16/09 Supreme Change (PDF, 173 KB) Washington Post
06/09/09 Seminar Offers Advice For Tenants Of Foreclosed Homes NY1
06/08/09 Borough Park Takes it to the Bank (PDF, 66 KB) Crain’s New York Business