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Publications

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Mortgage Finance

Research Reports

Credit and Collateral: Rising Denial Rates on Home Purchase Mortgage Applications, 2001-2011
Kevin A. Park
May 2013

Home Energy Efficiency and Mortgage Risks
Nikhil Kaza, Roberto G. Quercia and Chao Yue Tian
March 19, 2013

Affordable Homeownership: The Incidence and Effect of Downpayment Assistance
Allison Freeman and Jeffrey J. Harden
February 2013

The User Cost of Low-income Homeownership
Sarah F. Riley, HongYu Ru, Qing Feng
January 2013
Forthcoming in Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy

Debunking the CRA Myth – Again
Carolina Reid with Ellen Seidman, Mark Willis, Lei Ding, Josh Silver, Janneke Ratcliffe
January 2013

Sustaining and Expanding the Market: The Public Purpose of the Federal Housing Administration
Roberto G. Quercia & Kevin A. Park
December 2012

Strategic Default Behavior and Attitudes among Low-income Homeowners
Sarah F. Riley
November 2012

Homeownership & Civic Engagement in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Analysis
Kim Manturuk, Mark Lindblad, & Roberto Quercia
Urban Affairs Review 2012 48: 731
August 17, 2012

Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership (Working Paper)
Allison Freeman and Janneke Ratcliffe
May 2012

Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership (Policy Brief)
Janneke Ratcliffe
May 22, 2012

Community-based Interventions for Foreclosure Prevention & Mitigation
May 2012

Regaining the Dream Case Studies in Sustainable Low-income Mortgage Lending: Massachusetts SoftSecond Loan Program
May 2012

Differential Impacts of Structural and Cyclical Unemployment on Mortgage Default and Prepayment
March 2012

Sense of Community and Informal Social Control among Lower Income Households: The Role of Homeownership and Collective Efficacy in Reducing Subjective Neighborhood Crime and Disorder  
March 13, 2012

Servicer & Spatial Heterogeneity of Loss Mitigation Practices in Soft Housing Markets 
March 2, 2012

CRA Lending in a Changing Context: Evidence of Interaction with FHA and Subprime Originations
February 12, 2012

Balancing Risk and Access: Underwriting Standards for Qualified Residential Mortgages
January 2012

RESEARCH REPORT
Lost Ground, 2011: Disparities in Mortgage Lending & Foreclosures [PDF]
Debbie Gruenstein Bocian, Wei Li, Carolina Reid, Roberto G. Quercia
Prepared with the Center for Responsible Lending
November 2011

Perception vs. Reality: The Relationship between Low-Income Homeownership, Perceived Financial Stress, & Financial Hardship  
October 2011

Homeownership, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Children's Positive Behaviors Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households  
September 2011

Land use regulations and the returns to low-income homeownership
Sarah F. Riley
Annals of Regional Science
May 2011

Coping with Adversity: Personal Bankruptcy Decisions of Lower-Income Homeowners Before and After Bankruptcy Reform
April 2011

Mortgage Default Risk and Local Unemployment
Authors: Roberto G. Quercia, Anthony Pennington-Cross, and Chao Yue Tian
March 2011

Homeownership and Wealth among Low- and Moderate Income Households [PDF]
Authors: Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Clinton Key, Shenyang Guo, Yeong Han Yeo, and Krista Holub
March 2011

Parental Transfer of Financial Knowledge and Later Credit Outcomes among Low and Moderate Homeowners [PDF]
Authors: Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Jonathan Spader, Yeong Yeo, Elizabeth Books- Freeze, and Andrea Taylor
Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp. 78-85
January 2011

Navigating the Housing Downturn and Financial Crisis: Home Appreciation and Equity Accumulation among Community Reinvestment Homeowners(Book Chapter)
The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform, Susan Wachter and Marvin Smith, editors, University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

A Loan Level Residential Mortgage Backed Security Pricing Model: Are CRA type of CAP loans profit-making for the secondary market
November 2010

Urban Homeownership and Mental Health: Mediating Effects of Perceived Sense of Control and Community Trust
October 2010

Mortgage Default and Prepayment Risks among Moderate- and Low-Income Households
Authors: Roberto G. Quercia, Anthony Pennington-Cross and Chao Yue Tian
September 2010

The Preemption Effect: Impact of Federal Preemption of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis [PDF]
August 27, 2010

Portfolio Adjustment to Home Equity Accumulation among CRA Borrowers
July 2010

The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis
June 2010

Homeownership Done Right: What Experience and Research Teaches Us Watch Video
April 2010

Homeownership and Sense of Control during Economic Recession: A Propensity Score Analysis
April 2010

The APL Effect: The Impacts of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on Foreclosures [PDF]
March 23, 2010

The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
February 2010

Individual Development Accounts for Housing Policy: Analysis of Individual and Program Characteristics
Housing Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2010

The Effect of Marital Status on Homeownership among Low- and Moderate Income Households [PDF]
Forthcoming, Social Work Research
January  2010

Homeownership and Civic Engagement in Lower-Income Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Analysis
January  2010

Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages: Disaggregating Effects Using Propensity Score Models
November 2009

Renting to Owning: An Exploration of the Theory of Planned Behavior in the Homeownership Domain
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 31, pp. 376-389
November 2009

Friends and Neighbors: Homeownership and Social Capital Among Low- to Moderate-Income Families
November  2009

State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: Impacts and Federal Preemption Phase I Descriptive Analysis [PDF]
October 6, 2009

Mortgage Servicer Response to Borrowers in Crisis: A Report From the Front Lines [PDF]
September 14, 2009

Exposing the Myth of Irrational Exuberance
September 8, 2009

The Neglect of America's Housing: Consequences and Policy Responses
September 2009

Tailoring Loan Modifications: When Is Principal Reduction Desirable?
August  23, 2009

Neighborhood Subprime Lending and the Performance of Community Reinvestment Mortgages [PDF]
Journal of Real Estate Research 2010, Vol. 32, No. 3,  pp. 341-376
August 9, 2009

Thriftiness Isn't Enough: Dynamics of Consumer Credit History Scores Among Low- and Moderate-Income Homeowners
August  2009

Good Business and Good Policy: Finding the Right Ways to Serve the Affordable Mortgage Market [PDF]
July 2009

Homeownership and Local Voting in Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods [PDF]
Cityscape, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2009
July 2009

Loan Modification and Redefault Risk An Examination of Short-term Impact  
July  2009

Homeownership and Neighborhood Satisfaction Among Low- and Moderate-Income Households [PDF]
Forthcoming, Journal of Urban Affairs
July  2009

A Bridge to Somewhere
Janneke Ratcliffe
The American Prospect
June 26, 2009

Beyond Disparate Impact: Risk-based Pricing and Disparity in Consumer Credit History Scores
June  2009

Pre-Purchase Homeownership Counseling and Mortgage Search  
June  2009

The Refinancing Transition: Equity Extraction, Income Constraints, and Subprime Refinancing Among CRA Mortgage Borrowers
May  2009

Homeownership and Parenting Practices: Evidence from the Community Advantage Panel [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 32 (2010) pp. 774-782
May 2009

Mortgage Brokers and the Refinancing Transaction: Evidence from CRA Borrowers
May  2009

The Community Reinvestment Act: Outstanding and Needs to Improve [PDF]
Revisiting the CRA: Perspectives on the Future of the Community Reinvestment Act [PDF]
February 2009

The Impact of Low- and Moderate-Wealth Homeownership on Parental Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from the Community Advantage Panel [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 31 (1), p. 23-31 January  2009

Community Reinvestment Lending in a Changing Context: Evidence of Interaction with FHA and Subprime Originations [PDF]
January 2009

Community Advantage Program Database: Overview and Generalization [PDF]
Cityscape, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2009  

The Preventable Foreclosure Crisis [PDF]
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 775-783, Winter 2008

Mobility and Exit from Homeownership: Implications for Community Reinvestment Lending [PDF]
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 675-709, Winter 2008

Fostering Low-Income Homeownership through Individual Development Accounts: A Longitudinal, Randomized Experiment [PDF]
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 711-739, Winter 2008

Are Low- and Moderate-Income Homeownership and Neighborhood Context Associated with Social Capital?
September 2008

Community Reinvestment Legislation and Access to Housing Finance in Post-Apartheid South Africa [PDF]
Housing Studies, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 697-716
September 2008

How are neighbourhood design features valued across different neighbourhood types? [PDF]
Journal of Housing and The Built Environment, No. 23, pp. 297-316
August 2008

Subprime Lending and Low-Income Communities
Maps of each U.S. Congressional district comparing subprime mortgage lending across the United States with the location of low-income and minority communities Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summer 2008

Subprime's Footprint
Shelterforce
Summer 2008

The Impacts of Community-based Foreclosure Prevention Programs
Housing Studies , Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 461-483
May 2008

Does Homeownership Counseling Affect the Prepayment and Default Behavior of Affordable Mortgage Borrowers?
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pages 304-325
Spring 2008

Neighborhood Patterns of High Cost Lending: The Case of Atlanta
Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law , Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 193-217
2008

Post-purchase Counseling and Default Resolutions among Low- and Moderate-Income Borrowers
Journal of Real Estate Research, V. 30 No. 3, pp 315-344
January 2008

The Portfolios and Wealth of Low-Income Homeowners and Renters: Findings from an Evaluation of Self-Help Ventures Fund's Community Advantage Program
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, EconPapers 
October 2007

The Wealth-Creating Potential of Homeownership: A Preliminary Assessment of Price Appreciation Among Low-income Home Buyers
Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. May 2007

The Social-Psychological Effects of Affordable Homeownership [PDF]
Chasing the American Dream: New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.
May 2007

Persistency Pays Off: Prepayment Behavior of Affordable Home Mortgages
May 2007

The Determinants of Home Price Appreciation Among Community Reinvestment Homeowners
Housing Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 381-408
May 2007

An Affordable Homeownership Strategy That Promotes Savings Rather Than Risk [PDF]
Ending Poverty in America How to Restore the American Dream
The New Press, N.Y.
Spring 2007

Preventive Servicing is Good for Business and Affordable Homeownership Policy
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 243-278
January 2007

Creating a Low-Income Renter Panel as Part of the Evaluation of the Fannie Mae Self-Help Community Advantage Secondary Mortgage Demonstration Program [PDF] 
December 12, 2005

Low Income Homeowners in the Community Advantage Panel: A Preliminary Longitudinal Examination [PDF] 
November 10, 2005

Sharing the Wealth Through Homeownership: A Preliminary Exploration of the Price Appreciation Experiences of Low- and Moderate-Income Families Who Bought Homes Under the Community Advantage Secondary Market Loan Program [PDF]
July 2005

The Impact of Predatory Loan Terms on Subprime Foreclosures: The Special Case of Prepayment Penalties and Balloon Payments
January 2005

Assessing the Impact of North Carolina's Predatory Lending Law
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp.573-601
2004

The Earned Income Tax Credit as an Instrument of Housing Policy [PDF]
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
June 2003

Performance of Community Reinvestment Loans: Implications for Secondary Market Purchases [PDF]
Low Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal
The Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
2002

Community Advantage Panel Study: Social Impacts of Homeownership [PDF] 
August 2002

The Fall and Rise of Public Housing [PDF]
Regulation Magazine. The Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
Summer 2002

Does a High Tech Boom Worsen Housing Problems for Working Families? [PDF]
Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 393-415
May 2002

Facing the New Suburban Housing Crunch [PDF]
Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century, Vol. 8, pp. 54-57
Fall 2000

Housing America's Working Families
New Century Housing, Vol. 1, Issue 1
June 2000 

Testimonies

Comment on Federal Housing Finance Agency's Proposed Housing Goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2012-2014 [PDF]
Submitted by Janneke Ratcliffe and Kevin Park to FHFA General Counsel Alfred M. Pollard
July 26, 2012

The Private Mortgage Market Investment Act [PDF]
Statement of Janneke Ratcliffe before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets & Government-Sponsored Enterprises, United States House of Representatives
November 3, 2011

Comment on Proposed Standards for Credit Risk Retention and Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) Rule
Janneke Ratcliffe, Kevin A. Park Submitted to U.S. Department of the Treasury, Securities and Exchange Commission, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
August 2, 2011

Transparency as an Alternative to Risk Retention [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Testimony before the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs, U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
May 11, 2011

Written Statement of Janneke Ratcliffe, Before The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Hearing on Public Proposals for the Future of the Housing Finance System [PDF]
Washington, DC
Mar. 29, 2011

Regulation C: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Public Hearing [PDF]
Janneke H. Ratcliffe
Written and oral testimony before the Federal Reserve Board's HMDA hearings
Written testimony submitted by The Ford Foundation from a convening of researchers, including the Center for Community Capital [PDF] Washington, D.C.
Sept. 24, 2010

Community Reinvestment Act Regulations [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Testimony to a hearing of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Comptroller of the Currency and Office of Thrift Supervision.
Aug. 6, 2010
Written testimony submitted Aug. 31, 2010

Future of Housing Finance: The Role of Private Mortgage Insurance [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises
July 29, 2010

Examining the Making Home Affordable Program [PDF]
Roberto Quercia
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, Washington, D.C.
March 19, 2009

Technical Reports

Survey Methodology Reports:

The Effects of Differential Interviewer Incentives on a Field Data Collection Effort [PDF]

Reduction of Nonresponse Bias through Case Prioritization: Survey Research Methods [PDF]
Andy Peytchev, Sarah Riley, Jeff Rosen, Joe Murphy, and Mark Lindblad
Survey Research Methods 2010, 4 (1), 21-29

Annual reports to the Ford Foundation on its funded research and evaluation of the Community Advantage Program:

Working paper series by RTI International detailing design, instrumentation, data collection methods, case management system and project management for CAP owner and renter interviews:

Presentations

May 30, 2013
Home Energy Efficiency and Mortgage Risk
Chao Yue Tien
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference
Washington, D.C.

April 11, 2013
Erasing the Advantage: Homeownership and the Impact of Financial Hardship on Health for Lower-Income Americans
Kim R. Manturuk
2013 Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference
Washington, D.C.

April 5, 2013
Evicted: Household Effects of Home Foreclosure Starts and Sales
Mark Lindblad
Urban Affairs Association 43rd conference
San Francisco, Calif.

April 5, 2013
Mortgage Default Risk and Local Unemployment
Chao Yue Tian
The 2013 FSU-UF Critical Issues in Real Estate Symposium, Tallahassee, Fla.

February 4, 2013
Homeownership and Neighborhood Stability: Linking Sense of Control Among Low-Income Homeowners and Neighborhood Crime and Disorder
Janneke Ratcliffe
Habitat for Humanity International Annual Legislative Conference

November 16, 2012
Mortgage Default and Local Unemployment
Chao Yue Tian
Presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La.

November 10, 2012
Save the Home? Bankruptcy Decisions of Homeowners in Foreclosure
Mark Lindblad, Melissa Jacoby
2012 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, Md.

September 10, 2012
How Will the Future Mortgage System Meet the Demand for Homeownership?
Roberto Quercia
Presented at the FreddieMac Affordable Housing Advisory Council meeting, McLean VA

August 22, 2012
Using Data to Understand Emerging Trends in the Mortgage Market and Borrowers' Access to Credit
Sarah Riley
Presented at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Urban Institute roundtable, Washington, D.C.

August 15, 2012
Government Officials & Activists Discuss the Housing Crisis
Live coverage of Center for American Progress's conference, "Home for Good: It's time to Talk about Housing"
Report details

July 26, 2012
Affordable Housing & Sustainability: The Case for Low-Income Homeownership
Roberto Quercia
Presented at 2012 Eco-Forum Global, Guiyang CHINA

May 31, 2012
Balancing Risk & Access: Underwriting Standards for Qualified Residential Mortgages
Roberto Quercia, Lei Ding, & Carolina Reid
Presented at the American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association Mid-Year meeting, Washington, DC

May 22, 2012
Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership
Janneke Ratcliffe
Presented at the Woodrow Wilson Center's conference, Are We Becoming a Nation of Renters?, Washington DC

May 1, 2012
Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership
Presentation

Working Paper
Allison Freeman & Janneke Ratcliffe
Presented at Assets @ 21: Lessons from the Past, Directions for the Future, New America Foundation Symposium & Ideas Summit, Washington DC

April 20, 2012
Strategic Default Behavior and Attitudes among Urban Low-Income Homeowners
Sarah F. Riley
Presented at the 42nd Urban Affairs Association 2012 Conference, Pittsburgh PA

Save the Home? Bankruptcy Decisions of Homeowners in Foreclosure
Mark Lindblad
Presented at the 42nd Urban Affairs Association 2012 Conference, Pittsburgh PA

April 17, 2012
Quo Vadis? Where To for Affordable Mortgage Finance? 
Roberto G. Quercia
Presented to the Fannie Mae Affordable Housing Advisory Council Meeting, Washington DC

March 28, 2012
Affordable Housing: The Way Forward From Here [PDF]
Carolina Reid, David Min, & Janneke Ratcliffe
Presented at the 2012 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference, Seattle WA

February 8, 2012
Homeownership Done Right
Janneke Ratcliffe
Presented to Habitat on the Hill, Washington DC

January 2012
Mortgage Default & Local Unemployment [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia, Anthony Pennington-Cross & Chao Yue Tian
Presented at the American Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL

January 2012
Personal Bankruptcy Decisions Before & After Bankruptcy Reform [PDF]
Melissa Jacoby, Mark Lindblad, Roberto Quercia & Sarah Riley
Presented at the American Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL

December 15, 2011
Are Tax-Time Savings Sustainable?
Clinton Key, Jenna Tucker, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Presented at the Society for Social Work & Research, Washington D.C.

December 2, 2011
Homeownership for Low-Income & Minority Families [PDF]
Presented at the Consumer Federation of America Financial Services Conference, Washington DC

November 29, 2011
A Nation of Renters? Promoting Homeownership Post-Crisis [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia & Kevin A. Park
Presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Planning Association, Greenwood MS

November 20, 2011
The User Cost of Low-Income Homeownership: 2003-2010 [PPT]
Sarah Riley & HongYu Ru
Presented at the Southern Economics Association Conference, Washington DC

November 17, 2011
Assessing the Housing Economy's Vital Signs [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Presented at Opportunity Finance Network Conference, Minneapolis MN

November 10, 2011
Rebuilding the Housing Finance System & the Future of Homeownership
Roberto G. Quercia & Kevin A. Park
Presented at World Town Planning Day at the University of Hawaii-Manoa

October 25, 2011
Anticipatory Survey Design: Reduction of Nonresponse Bias through Bias Prediction Models [PDF]
Andy Peytchev, Sarah Riley, Jeff Rosen, Joe Murphy, Mark Lindblad, & Paul Biemer
Presented to the U.S. Census Bureau

October 6, 2011
Mortgage Underwriting & Access to Credit [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia, Lei Ding & Carolina Reid
Presented at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fall 2011 Research Symposium: "New Research on Sustainable Mortgages and Access to Credit

September 20, 2011
Panel Discussion: Risk, Access and the Future of Homeownership [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
Presented at Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.

September 15, 2011
Personal Bankrutpcy Decisions of Lower-Income Homeowners [PDF]
Mark Lindblad, Roberto Quercia, Sarah Riley, Tianji Cai, Ling Wang, Kim Manturuk, and Melissa Jacoby
FDIC Consumer Research Symposium: Financial Behavior in Turbulent Times

September 1, 2011
The Decision to Own: Smart Leverage or Unnecessary Risk [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia

Aug. 23, 2011
Linking Social Disorganization, Urban Homeownership and Mental Health [PDF]
Kim Manturuk
Presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev.

July 22, 2011
Anticipatory Survey Design: Reduction of Non-response Bias through Bias Prediction Models[PDF]
Andy Peytchev, Sarah Riley, Jeff Rosen, Joe Murphy, Mark Lindblad, Paul Biemer
Presented at European Survey Research Association Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland

July 21, 2011
Panel Discussion: "Housing Finance Reform: Proposals, Policy and Politics" [PDF]
Fixed Income Forum 2011 Senior Delegates Roundtable, Park City, Utah
Janneke Ratcliffe

June 26, 2011
Factors Affecting Completion of a Matched Savings Program: Time Preference, Discount Rate, and Financial Hardship
[PDF]
Kim Manturuk, Jessica Dorrance, and Sarah Riley

June 9-10, 2011
Low-Income Homeownership During the Financial Crisis:  Perceived Stress & User Costs [PDF]
Sarah Riley, Kimberly Manturuk, and HongYu Ru

May 30, 2011
The Aftermath of the US Financial Crisis: Implications for Affordable Housing Finance [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
Presented at Peking University, Symposium on Urban and Regional Planning and Management

May 12, 2011
Rebuilding the American Dream: Homeownership after the Great Recession [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Homeownership Symposium hosted by the Ford Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and the Hearst Foundations

April 28-29, 2011
Personal Bankruptcy Decisions of Lower-Income Homeowners [PDF]
Mark Lindblad, Roberto Quercia, Sarah Riley, Tianji Cai, Ling Wang, Kim Manturuk, Melissa Jacoby
Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, The Changing Landscape of Community Development, Washington, D.C

April 28-29, 2011
Perception & Reality during the Financial Crisis: Homeowership, Low-Income Households and Financial Stress [PDF]
Kimberly Manturuk, Sarah Riley and Janneke Ratcliffe
Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, The Changing Landscape of Community Development, Washington, D.C

April 6, 2011
Today's Latino Children: The Recession Generation [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
Insight Center for Community Economic Development policy summit, The Recession Generation, the Racial Wealth Gap, and Restoring American Prosperity, Washington, DC

The Potential Power of Data Sharing & Usage
[PPT]
Janneke Ratcliffe
National Association of Attorneys General 2011 Presidential Initiative
Charlotte, NC
Apr. 8, 2011

The New Economic & Social Realities of Urban Homeownership [PDF]
Kim Manturuk, Mark Lindblad, Sarah F. Riley, and Clinton C. Key
Urban Affairs Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
Mar. 17, 2011

The Many Roads to Foreclosure, NC [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia, and Kevin A. Park
Presented at the Working Group Meeting on Economic Development, Office of Economic & Business Development UNC CH
Mar. 16, 2011

Sustainable CRA Lending [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
FDIC forum on Restoring Responsible Low- and Moderate-Income Mortgage Lending, Washington, D.C.
Mar. 1, 2011

Mortgage Default and Local Unemployment Implications for the Hardest Hit Fund [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia and Chao Yue Tian
Center for Urban and Regional Studies Research Seminar, Feb. 9, 2011

Residential and Non Residential Fathers: Implications for Child Wellbeing [PDF]
Pajarita Charles, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Roderick Rose
Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference 2011, Tampa FL.

Marital Status and the Transition into Low-Income Homeownership: Evidence from a Propensity Score Analysis [PDF]
Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Clinton Key, Pajarita Charles, Shenyang Guo, and Kim Manturuk
Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference 2011, Tampa FL.

Prior Parental Teaching of Money Management and Later Loan Performances among Low- and Moderate-Income Homeowners [PDF]
Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Clinton Key, Yeong Yeo, Andrea Taylor, and Jonathan Spader
Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference 2011, Tampa FL.
 

CRA Services Test: Leverage changes to qualifying criteria and take advantage of some old ones too [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
CRA & Fair Lending Colloquium, Nov. 7-10, 2010, Las Vegas NV

Impact of Federal Preemption of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis [PPT]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management - 32nd Annual Research Conference, Boston, MA
Nov. 4, 2010

2010 N.C. State of the Economy, The Housing Recovery and Beyond [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
N.C. Housing Coalition, 2010 N.C. Affordable Housing Conference: "Housing Works"
Raleigh Convention Center, N.C.
Sept. 16-17, 2010  

Future of Housing Finance: The Role of Private Mortgage Insurance [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Washington, D.C.                                             
July 29, 2010
View archived Web Cast

Homeownership, Low-Income Households, and Financial Stress [PDF]
Kimberly Manturuk, Sarah Riley, Janneke Ratcliffe
Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder CO
June 28, 2010

Do Default Hazards Change over Time? Implications for Effective Loan Modification Strategies [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia, Chao Yue, Tian
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association 2010 Mid-Mid Year Meeting, Washington, D.C.
June 3-4, 2010

Lessons to Learn from CRA Lending [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia and Janneke Ratcliffe
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Recover. Rethink. Rebuild. Reinventing Older Communities, Hyatt Regency Philadelphia PA at Penn's Landing
May 12-14, 2010

The Foreclosure Crisis Today [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia
Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate Society, Naples, FL
April 16, 2010

The Foreclosure Crisis: Where are Things Today? [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia
Community  Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, Saving Homes, Modifying Loans Successes, Lessons and Recommendations for HAMP, Charlotte, N.C.
April 6, 2010

The Foreclosure Crisis and Minority Communities A Research Reconnaissance [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia
N.C. Institute for Minority Economic Development, National & Regional Conversation on the Economic Impact of Housing on Minority Communities, Raleigh, N.C.
February 2, 2010

Tailoring Loan Modifications: When Is Principal Reduction Desirable? [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia, Lei Ding
APPAM Fall Research Conference, Washington, D.C. 
November 5-7, 2009

Preventing Foreclosures: Counselors, Servicers and Loan Modifications  [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia
NC Housing Finance Agency Conference, Raleigh, Raleigh Convention Center, N.C.
November 3, 2009

State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws and Federal Preemption  [PDF]
Roberto G.Quercia
Campbell University School of Law
October 29, 2009

Tailoring Loan Modifications: When is Principal Reduction Desirable? [PDF]
Lei Ding
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association 37th Annual Mid Year Meeting
June 2009

Understanding the Foreclosure Crisis and the Policy Responses [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
University of Texas, College Station, TX
May 2009

Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington D.C.
April 16-17, 2009

Seeking Solutions to the Mortgage Dilemna [PPT]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Mortgage Bankers Association Mortgage Servicing & Expo Conference, Tampa FL
February 19, 2009

Is Homeownership Associated With Better Parental Practices? Evidence from the Community Advantage Panel [PDF]
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
SSWR 13th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
January15, 2009

The Effects of Low- and Moderate-Income Homeownership and Neighborhood Context on Resource Generation: A Multilevel Analysis [PDF]
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
SSWR 13th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
January 15, 2009

The Preventable Foreclosure Crisis [PDF]
Roberto G. Quercia
Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, Mich.
October 27, 2008

Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages [PDF]
Lei Ding
HUD Tuesday Series, Washington, D.C.
October 28, 2008

Foreclosures & The Community [PPT]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Virginia Foreclosure Prevention Community Impact, Richmond, VA
July 23, 2008

Risky Borrowers or Risky Mortgages: Disaggregating Effects Using Propensity Score Models [PDF]
Lei Ding
13th Asian Real Estate Society Annual Meeting, Shanghai, CHINA
July 2008

How Do We Safely Reach the Other Side? [PDF]
Janneke Ratcliffe
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Community Development Policy Summit Cleveland, Ohio
June 12, 2008

Spillover Effect of Neighborhood Subprime Lending  [PPT]
Lei Ding
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Meeting 36th Annual Mid Year Meeting
May 2008

Solutions to the Subprime Crisis: Anatomy of a Mortgage Backed Security [PPT]
Louis Perwein
CCC Internal Presentation
April 2008

Consumer Financial Services

The Importance of Tax Time for Building Emergency Savings: Major Findings from $ave NYC
April 2013

Individual, Institutional, and Structural Determinants of Household Savings Decisions
April 2012

Factors Affecting Completion of a Matched Savings Program: Impacts of Time Preference, Discount Rate, and Financial Hardship
The Journal of Socio-Economics
April 9, 2011

The Consumer Finance Act: Report and Recommendations to the 2011 General Assembly
February 2011

The Reality Education and Assets Partnership: Assessing the Feasibility of On Campus Money Management Programs at Minority Serving Institutions in North Carolina
December 2009

The Bold and the Bankable: Telenovela and Financial Education
Communities Banking, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 26-28 Fall 2009

Telenovela with a Financial Message
Community Investments, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 38 Summer 2009

Increasing Inequality: The Role of American Household Indebtedness Between 1989-2004
April 2009

The Bold and the Bankable: How the Nuestro Barrio Soap Opera Effectively Delivers Financial Education to Latino Immigrants
Journal of Consumer Affairs Vol. 43, No.1, pp. 56-79
Spring 2009

Research Priorities: Results of the National Research Symposium on Financial Literacy and Education
Results of the National Research Symposium on Financial Literacy and Education: Ten Recommended Research Priorities  
October 6-7, 2008

North Carolina Consumers after Payday Lending: Attitudes and Experiences with Credit Options
Prepared for the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks
November 2007

Payday Lending [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 169-190
Winter 2007

Latino Lending: Analysis of the Consumer Loan Portfolio of North Carolina's Cooperativa Communitaria Latino de Crédito
Prepared for Freddie Mac
September 2005

Transforming Tax Refunds into Assets: A Panel Survey of VITA Clients in Greenville, Henderson, and Raleigh
Report for the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks
August 2005

The Role of Technology in Serving the Unbanked
March 2005

Welfare, Work and Banking: The Use of Consumer Credit by Current and Former TANF Recipients in Charlotte, North Carolina
Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 279-402
September 2005

Financial Institutions and Individual Development Accounts: Results of a National Survey
October 2003

The North Carolina Financial Services Survey
Prepared for the North Carolina Division of Social Services
October 2001

The Impacts of IDA Programs on Family Savings and Asset-Holding
February 2001

Banking the Unbanked: Connecting Residents of Social Housing to the Financial Mainstream Housing and Social Change: East-West Perspectives, pp. 199-220
December 2003

Standard Bank of South Africa's E Plan: Harnessing ATM Technology to Expand Banking Services
July 2003

Bringing More Affordable Financial Services to the Inner City: The Bethex Federal Credit Union-RiteCheck Check Cashing, Inc. Partnership [PDF]
Fannie Mae Foundation, Building Blocks, Vol. 3, No. 3
Winter 2002

Toward a More Performance-Driven Service Test: Strengthening Basic Banking Services under the Community Reinvestment Act [PDF]
Fall 2002

Creating a Scorecard for the CRA Service Test: Strengthening Banking Services Under the Community Reinvestment Act
The Brookings Institution, Policy Brief 96
March 2002

The State of Electronic Benefit Transfer
December 2003

Payday Lending: A Business Model that Encourages Chronic Borrowing
Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 8-32
February 2003

Banking the Unbanked: Untapped Market Opportunities for North Carolina's Financial Institutions [PDF]
North Carolina Banking Institute Journal, Vol. 5, pp. 23-47
School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
August 2001

The Public Policy Challenges of Payday Lending [PDF]
Institute of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Popular Government, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 16-22
Spring 2001

Too Much Month at the End of the Paycheck: Payday Lending in North Carolina [PDF]
Published by York Wilson, Durham, N.C.
January 2001

Spatial Analysis of Bank and Check-Cashing Locations in Charlotte, N.C.
December 30, 1999

A Guide to Low-Cost Financial Products in North Carolina
Report for the North Carolina Bankers Association and the North Carolina Credit Union Network
May 1999

Testimonies


An Examination of the Availability of Credit for Consumers
[PDF]
Kim Manturuk
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Credit for Consumers
Washington, D.C.
Sept. 22, 2011

Presentations

May 14, 2013
The Importance of Tax Time for Building Emergency Savings: Major Findings from $ave NYC
Presentation Slides | Webinar
Kim Manturuk
Presented at UNC Center for Community Capital Webinar

Oct. 25, 2012
Evaluating Non-profit Programs: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls
Kim Manturuk
Presented at the American Evaluation Association 2012 Conference, Minneapolis, Minn.

Sept. 21, 2012
CFED Assets Learning Conference Closing Plenary Remarks
Lucy Gorham
Presented at the CFED 2012 Assets Learning Conference, Washington, D.C.

June 13, 2012
Emerging Opportunities for Innovation in Small-Dollar Credit
Kim Manturuk
Presented at "Findings from the Field-Consumers & Small Dollar Credit" workshop, CFSI Seventh Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum, San Francisco, CA

April 19, 2012
Learning by Doing: Lessons on Financial Education from $aveNYC
Kim Manturuk
Presented at the Annual Conference on Financial Education, Orlando FL

Low-Income Homeownership During the Financial Crisis: Perceived Stress & User Cost [PDF] 
Sarah Riley, Kimberly Manturuk, & HongYu Ru
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland OH Policy Summit, "A Conference on Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality"
June 9-10, 2011

$aveNYC: Applying Behavioral Economics Principles to Encourage Savings [PPT]
Clinton Key
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management - 32nd Annual Research Conference, Boston, MA
Nov. 4, 2010

What Do We Know About the Unbanked [PPT]
Janneke Ratcliffe
N.C. House Study Committee on Unbanked and Underbanked Consumers, Raleigh, N.C.
August 21, 2008

Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap: Money, Markets and the Next Generation of Investors [PPT]
Mark McDaniel
National Association of Student Affairs Professionals: Student Leadership Institute at Bowie State University, Bowie, Md.
May 27, 2008

Evolution of Banking & Access to Financial Services in the U.S. [PPT]
Michael Stegman
World Bank Conference on Broadening Urban Access to Financial Services, Cartagena, Colombia
April 28, 2004

A Sampler of Consumer Credit-related Research Being Conducted at the Center for Community Capitalism [PPT]
Michael Stegman
CFA Financial Services Conference, Washington, D.C.
December 2, 2004

Tax Time Savings

The Importance of Tax Time for Building Emergency Savings: Major Findings from $ave NYC
April 2013

Community Development Finance

Increasing Access to Capital: Could Better Measurement of Social and Environmental Outcomes Entice More Institutional Investment Capital into Underserved Communities?
Community Development Investment Review, Vol 5, Issue 2. Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco, 2009

The Role of Community Development Financial Institutions in Home Ownership Finance
Prepared for CDFI Fund, U.S. Treasury under contract with Abt Associates
August 2008

Community Development Financial Institutions and the Segmentation of Underserved Markets
Prepared for CDFI Fund, U.S. Treasury Department under contract with Abt Associates
September 2008

Who's Counting? Measuring the Social Outcomes from Targeted Private Equity
Community Development Investment Review , Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
June 2007

Social Outcomes of Banc of America Capital Access Funds, A Fund of Funds Channeling Private Equity Capital to Underserved Markets
2006 and 2007 reports

Escheats Funds: An Overlooked Source of Public Capital for Business Development in North Carolina
September 2005

Creating Value in Inner-City Supermarkets: The Community Pride Way: A Case Study Working Paper
August 2001

Business-First Economic Development Benefits the Inner-City: A Partnership of the Eaton Corporation Navy Controls Division and the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: A Case Study
August 2001

Presentations

Community Capitalism as a Foundation for a National Urban Policy [PPT]
Michael Stegman
Bootstrap Capitalism: Financial Services in Low-Income Communities, Washington, D.C. September 17, 2004

A Personal Perspective on the Recapitalization of Communities [PPT]
Michael Stegman
Community Development Policy Summit, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio
May 14, 2004

Thirty Years & Counting: Why Has CDBG Outlived Most HUD Assisted Production Programs? [PPT]
Michael Stegman
Edward V. Sparer Symposium, University of Pennsylvania Law School
March 19, 2004

New Markets Tax Credit Program [PPT]
Michael Stegman
Monitoring and Evaluation Roundtable, Washington, D.C.
March 13, 2002

Creating Community Wealth [PPT]
Michael Stegman
Net Impact Conference, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
November 3, 2001

Emerging Issues in Financial Markets & Community Investment [PPT]
Michael Stegman
GAO Planning Conference, US General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C.
February 15, 2001

Center Researchers

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