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    Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

    May 31st 2023 | Donald H. Layton

    The purpose of this article is to address the very serious – and not broadly understood or openly discussed – interrelated topics of interest rate risk adjustment (or the lack thereof) and the embedded and often hidden cross-subsidies that today are found at the four government mortgage agencies, i.e., the two GSES plus the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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    NYU Furman Center Releases State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2022

    May 25th 2023

    We are thrilled to announce the release of the comprehensive report the State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2022. This work sheds light on the evolving landscape of housing and communities in New York City, providing valuable insights into the city’s vibrant and diverse neighborhoods.

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    The Weakness of Neighborhood Revitalization Planning in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: Warnings from Connecticut

    April 25th 2023 | Katherine O’Regan, Alex Roth

    The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”) is the nation’s largest program to produce and preserve subsidized housing. To ensure that LIHTC avoids harmfully concentrating poverty, entrenching segregation, or inefficiently deploying resources, federal law requires that states prioritize allocating credits to projects located in high-poverty locations that contribute to a “concerted community revitalization plan” (“CCRP”). In high-poverty neighborhoods, tax credit developments are meant to facilitate broader neighborhood revitalization, not only to benefit the residents of the housing itself. This working paper by Noah Kazis, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Faculty Director Kathy O’Regan provides new, empirical support for long-standing concerns that the CCRP process is ineffectively enforced.

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    Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing -  Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

    April 3rd 2023 | Donald H. Layton

    Manufactured housing (MH) has recently taken on a high profile among affordable housing advocates, including in the Biden administration. As described in Part 1 of this three-part series, MH has more complex economics than conventional owned or rented housing, particularly with respect to the significant market share of MH where the structure is owned by its resident but the underlying land is rented from someone else.  The challenge in such cases is that the MH resident does not get to enjoy the two significant social benefits of homeownership that have long been used to justify government intervention to subsidize and support it:  building net worth to support retirement and the next generation, and avoiding landlord-generated housing instability. Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH.

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    Implications and Geography of Office to Housing Conversions

    March 23rd 2023 | Matthew Murphy, Patrick Spauster

    In their “Making New York Work for Everyone” plan, released in January, Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul expressed eagerness to build more housing in New York City’s business districts after COVID. But due to significant financing, zoning, and design challenges in converting office buildings to residential, only select offices make good candidates for conversion, and few offices have actually converted in recent years. This post describes three resources to help inform the conversions debate.

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    Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

    March 13th 2023 | Donald H. Layton

    The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country,  is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry. The G-fee level has been strategically steady since it rose to its current range (between 0.45 percent to 0.49 percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. Unfortunately, that level began to be called into question by the adoption in 2020 of a new and much higher capital requirement by the FHFA, which in turn seems to require a much higher average G-fee.  As such a higher G-fee has not yet been seen, it creates a major policy uncertainty overhanging the mortgage lending system – is a big G-fee increase inevitably coming?

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    Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing -  Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

    February 21st 2023 | Donald H. Layton

    Manufactured housing (MH), the official name for what have historically been called mobile homes, comprises the most prominent type of factory-built housing in the US. This article aims to take a fresh look at MH to determine just how much it truly can be a large-scale natural source of additional affordable housing, whether owner-occupied or rental, as claimed by its supporters in the industry and policy community. As Part 1 of a three-part series, this article will go over some basic facts and figures about MH.

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    Policy Breakfast: The Proposed New York Housing Compact

    February 17th 2023 | Shannon Flores, Alex Roth

    On Thursday, February 9, 2023, the Furman Center hosted a Policy Breakfast titled The New York Housing Compact: Implications for NYC. The conversation explored Governor Kathy Hochul’s recently released New York Housing Compact, a comprehensive, multi-pronged framework for communities across the state to increase housing supply, with the ambitious goal of building 800,000 new units across the state in the next decade.

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    Eviction practices across subsidized housing in New York State

    January 13th 2023

    In a new NYU Furman Center data brief, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, and Ellie Lochhead used data on eviction cases from the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) to compare eviction patterns in different types of place-based subsidized housing in New York City and in other jurisdictions across New York State from 2016 to 2021. Cases filed due to non-payment of rent are the focus of the brief and represent the majority of eviction filings.

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    Roundtable Discussion on the Biden-Harris Administration’s Housing Supply Action Plan

    December 8th 2022 | Alex Roth

    Proclaimed “the most comprehensive of all government efforts to close the housing supply shortfall in history,” the Biden-Harris Administration released a Housing Supply Action Plan in May 2022 to address the nation’s housing shortage. To discuss the plan and its implications at the local level, The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley held a joint webinar on October 28th.

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