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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.40,Issue6,P.824-837

语言

英文

关键字

FORECLOSURE CRISIS; NEIGHBORHOODS; SEGREGATION; INVESTORS; PRICES

作者单位

[Raymond, Elora Lee] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch City Planning & Real Estate Dev, Urban Planning, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA. Raymond, EL (reprint author), Clemson Univ, Dept City Planning & Real Estate Dev, 2-118 Lee Hall,Box 340511, Clemson, SC 29634 USA. E-Mail: eraymon@clemson.edu

摘要

I analyze neighborhoods with persistent negative equity in the Southeast to understand whether persistent negative equity can be explained by the same factors that led to the crash or whether dynamics during the recovery period are more relevant. Negative equity is high in the Southeast and concentrated in urban areas. In a series of regressions, I evaluate the contribution of income, commute times, unemployment, housing stock quality, vacancy rates, mortgage market factors, and racial/ethnic composition to rates of negative equity. I also provide within-state and within-metropolitan estimates. I find that even after controlling for subprime lending, the severity of the housing market crash, and other factors, the places with persistent high negative equity are in predominantly Black ZIP codes. Other correlates with persistent negative equity are longer commute times, higher unemployment rates, and high rental vacancy rates. Even after controlling for factors relating to the housing market crash, race remains the strongest predictor of persistent negative equity. This finding indicates that though subprime lending and the foreclosure crisis exacerbated racial and spatial inequality, the recovery itself has also been uneven and has proceeded in a way that widens the racial gap in housing wealth. To further explore the dynamics of the recovery, I provide preliminary evidence that recovery efforts like refinances of Home Affordable Refinancing Program-eligible loans were less likely to be performed in predominantly Black neighborhoods.