Housing Finance

Market timing and racial wealth disparities

Joe Cortright | July 6, 2017

How buying high and selling low makes housing a bad investment for many disadvantaged groups One of the enduring features of American inequality is the wide disparity in homeownership rates between white Americans and Latinos

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A tax credit for renters

Joe Cortright | November 7, 2016

A new proposal from Berkeley’s Terner Center aims to broaden favorable tax treatment for housing to include the nation’s renters Our tax code is highly skewed towards homeownership. Between the deductions for mortgage interest expenses and property

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