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Article December 13, 2016 Principles of Housing Finance Reform: The Imperative of Rebuilding the System In the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the long and slow recovery has reached a critical moment. Joseph Tracy Susan Wachter Housing State & Local Finance

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Book December 13, 2016 Principles of Housing Finance Reform Susan Wachter Joseph Tracy Housing

Fellow Aromar Revi

Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Laurie Goodman

Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center Founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute

Scholar Mark Willis

Senior Policy Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University

Urban Development Housing + 1

Faculty Fellow Jere Behrman

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Andrew Davidson

Founder and President, Andrew Davidson & Co. Founder, Financial Life Cycle Education Corp

Climate Change & Resilience Housing

Fellow Mark Zandi

Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics

State & Local Finance

Research Paper May 9, 2016 Educating Commercial Real Estate Brokers on Green Leasing / Energy Efficiency This project was sponsored by the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI), a program of the Department of Energy. CBEI was a five-year program tasked with bridging the technology, market dynamics, policy, and human behavior in order to reduce energy used by the commercial buildings sector. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance

Emerging Scholar Albert Zevelev

Assistant Professor of Finance, Fowler College of Business, San Diego State University

State & Local Finance

Fellow Raphael Bostic

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Housing State & Local Finance

Cover of How Real Estate Developers Think

Book May 18, 2015 How Real Estate Developers Think Penn IUR Scholar Peter Hendee Brown writes about real estate development business in Chicago, Miami, Portland (Oregon), and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Peter Hendee Brown Housing

Affiliated PhD Student Sudev Sheth

PhD Candidate in South Asia Studies and History, University of Pennsylvania

Scholar Rebecca Diamond

Class of 1988 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

State & Local Finance

Scholar Yongheng Deng

John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, University of Wisconsin Chair, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, University of Wisconsin

Housing State & Local Finance

Fellow Sarah Rosen Wartell

President, Urban Institute

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Sheela Patel

Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

Scholar Arthur C. Nelson

Professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development, University of Arizona

Urban Development State & Local Finance

Scholar Dowell Myers

Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Director, Population Dynamics Research Group

Urban Development Housing

Scholar Matthew Kahn

Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California, Dornsife

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