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Urban Decline in Rust-Belt Cities
Daniel Hartley
Many Rust-Belt cities have seen almost half their populations move from inside the city borders to the surrounding suburbs and elsewhere since the 1970s. As populations shifted, neighborhoods changed—in their average income, educational profile, and housing prices. But the shift did not happen in every neighborhood at the same rate. Recent research has uncovered some of the patterns characterizing the process. Read more

Annual Report

Breaking the Housing Crisis Cycle (PDF)

Economic Commentary

Urban Decline in Rust-Belt Cities (PDF)
Alternatives to Libor in Consumer Mortgages (PDF)
Overvaluing Residential Properties and the Glut of REO (PDF)
Foreclosure-Related Vacancy Rates (PDF)
Homeowner Subsidies (PDF)
The Effect of Falling Home Prices on Small Business Borrowing (PDF)
The Impact of Foreclosures on the Housing Market (PDF)
Out of the Shadows: Projected Levels for Future REO Inventory (PDF)
Why Didn’t Canada’s Housing Market Go Bust? (PDF)
What’s Really Going on in Housing Markets? (PDF)

Economic Trends

Forefront

Housing and the Federal Reserve (PDF)

News Item

Mortgage market is focus of President Pianalto speech

Other FRB Publications

Five Policy Considerations for Improving Ohio’s Housing Markets

Speech

Reflections on the Mortgage Market

Working Paper, FRB

Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity (PDF)
Land Bank 2.0: An Empirical Evaluation (PDF)
Did Local Lenders Forecast the Bust? Evidence from the Real Estate Market (PDF)
The Relationship between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline (PDF)
Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity (PDF)
Marginal Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity (PDF)
The Impact of Recovery Efforts on Residential Vacancies (PDF)
The Impact of Vacant, Tax-Delinquent, and Foreclosed Property on Sales Prices of Neighboring Homes (PDF)
Inter-Regional Home Price Dynamics through the Foreclosure Crisis (PDF)
Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity (PDF)
Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Effect of Demolishing High Concentration Public Housing on Crime (PDF)
The Effect of Foreclosures on Nearby Housing Prices: Supply or Disamenity? (PDF)
Endogenous Gentrification and Housing-Price Dynamics (PDF)