The purpose of this article is to review and synthesize literature about low-income and
minority households' experience with homeownership and to assess the extent to which …

This chapter examines certain of the developments in the application of economic theory
and in empirical and policy analysis with respect to housing markets in general and urban …

Residential relocation is the household decision that generates housing consumption
changes. It is not merely a decision about changing locations; it is also a decision about …

There is a substantial research literature on residential mobility in general, and the role of
housing space in triggering moves in particular. The authors extend that research to mobility …

Using a 1996 national survey of housing in China and a multilevel modelling technique, we
examine housing tenure choice in transitional urban China where households have been …

This paper exploits the recent variation in US house prices to examine the effect of equity
constraints and nominal loss aversion on household mobility. Detailed data from the 1985 …

Almost all the work to date on tenure changes, specifically the move from rent to own, has
been derived from cross-sectional analysis of this important housing market decision …

UK commentators have noted that the UK housing market may hinder labour market
flexibility. The present paper uses UK household longitudinal data (BHPS) for the early …

This article accounts for the boom in homeownership from 1994 to 2005 by examining the
roles of demographic changes and mortgage innovations. To measure the impact of these …

This paper provides the first rigorous assessment of the homeownership experiences of
subprime borrowers. We consider homeowners who used subprime mortgages to buy their …