Between 2011 and 2015, the Wayne County Treasurer completed the property tax
foreclosure process for one in four properties in Detroit, Michigan. No other American city …

In the years since the financial crisis, low-income housing markets are increasingly
dominated by speculative bulk ownership and eviction. These intertwined trends reflect both …

Since 2001 investors have purchased rent-regulated housing in New York City with
heightened expectation for financial performance, placing pressure on tenants and …

Evictions have recently gained attention as a problem affecting millions of households
worldwide. This study contributes to knowledge on the conditions leading to housing …

Abstract Mortgage foreclosures hit Detroit, Michigan hard between 2005 and 2014,
especially in what we define as strong neighborhoods; there, more than one third of homes …

In recent years, there has been a massive influx of unaccompanied minors (UMs) 1 crossing
the southern border. 2 Under the Trump administration, migrant children are being held in …

Since the onset of the foreclosure crisis, scholars have examined large-scale investor
acquisition of mortgage-reverted properties in numerous US housing markets. This work is …

Foreclosure sales permitted investors to purchase large volumes of low-cost residential
properties after the last financial crisis, reshaping patterns of property ownership in low …

This article explores why and how homeowners in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York,
took out subprime mortgage loans, and the effect of these loans on individuals and their …

This study shows how the property taxation system in Detroit, Michigan, exacerbated
neighborhood destabilization even after several programs were introduced to mitigate its …