Research Briefs

The Lusk Center publishes research briefs on an approximate monthly schedule over the course of the academic year. The briefs provide condensed presentation of USC scholarly research in real estate and are oriented to the professional, academic, and policy communities. Individual copies of recent research briefs are available in printed form on this web site. The Lusk Center research briefs are disseminated widely among the real estate academic and professional communities.
Year Title Author(s)
2004 Fall 2004, Warren Buffett's Call to Overhaul Prop 13: Some Preliminary Analyses

Keith Padien

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2004 Fall 2004, Commuting Trends in U.S. Cities in the 1990's

Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon, and Bumsoo Lee

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2004 Winter 2004, The Impact of CRA Agreements on Community Banks

Raphael W. Bostic and Breck L. Robinson

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2004 Winter 2004, Mobility, Residential Location, and the American Dream

Stuart Gabriel and Gary Painter

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2004 Winter 2004, Neighborhood: A Key Concept for Development and Planning

Greg Hise

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2003 Spring 2003 Enhancing Mortgage Credit Availability Among Underserved and Higher Credit-Risk Populations: An Assessment of Default And Prepayment Option Exercise Among FHA-Insured Borrowers

Yongheng Deng and Stuart A. Gabriel

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2003 Spring 2003, The Impact Of Urban Growth Boundaries On Future Urbanization

William Fulton, Christine Ryan And John Wilson

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2003 Spring 2003, Intra-Metropolitan mobility, residential location, and home ownership choice among minority and white households: Estimates of a nested multinomial logit model.

Stuart A. Gabriel and Gary Painter

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2002 Winter 2002, The Continuing Decentralization of People and Jobs in the United States

Dong Hwan An, Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson

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2002 Winter 2002, The Demand For Home Modifications Among Seniors

Nandinee K. Kutty

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2002 Fall 2002 Do CRA Agreements Influence Lending Patterns?

Raphael W. Bostic and Breck Robinson

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2002 Fall 2002, Heterogeneity in Asian-American Home ownership: the Impact of Household Endowments and Immigrant Status

Gary Painter

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2002 Spring 2002, Location and Home ownership Choices of African-American Households in Los Angeles

Gary Painter

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2002 Spring 2002, A Test of Cultural Affinity in Home Mortgage Lending

Raphael W. Bostic

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2001 Spring 2001, Industry and Urbanization In Southern California, 1900-1950

Greg Hise

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2001 Winter 2001, Finding The Blight That's Right for California Redevelopment Law

George Lefcoe

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2001 Winter 2001, In Defense of "Sprawl"

Peter Gordon

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2000 Winter 2000, The Composition of Metropolitan Employment and The Correlation of Prices Across Metropolitan Areas

Christian L. Redfearn

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2000 Fall 2000, Rental Housing Markets, the Incidence and Duration of Vacancy, and the Natural Vacancy Rate

Stuart A. Gabriel and Frank E. Nothaft

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2000 March 2000, Should Corporations Disgorge Their Real Estate Property Holdings?

Yongheng Deng

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