The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from their homes and communities. We offer new [...]
News and Commentary Elise Amez-Droz and Andrea O'Sullivan outline some of the best supply side reforms to increase access and bring down healthcare costs. Among their proposed reforms are increased [...]
Why are prices in some sectors increasing dramatically even as economy-wide technology and productivity improves? Education and healthcare are notable examples of sectors seemingly stricken by constantly rising prices. Educational [...]
News and Commentary In his Wall Street Journal op-ed (posted here on the Brookings website), William Gale makes a damning case against the mortgage interest deduction. Similar countries without an MID have [...]
We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank’s headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we [...]
This paper seeks to refine our understanding of how refinancing a mortgage affects household outcomes. This issue has attracted particular attention in the wake of the Great Recession, however, there [...]
Rent Check A forthcoming Fordham Law Review paper makes the case for comprehensive right to repair legislation in the US, arguing (among other points) that more R2R will make innovators [...]
In a forthcoming article in Fordham Law Review, Leah Chan Grinvald and Ofer Tur-Sinai make the case for comprehensive right-to-repair (R2R) legislation across the country: In recent years, there has [...]
In recent years, there has been a growing push towards state legislation that would provide consumers with a “right to repair” their products. Currently 18 states have pending legislation that [...]
News and Commentary A new medium post from Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint goes through the potential effects of the recently postponed SB 50. The benefits of the jobs-rich area provisions, [...]