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USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Pinpoints Factors Determining Minority Homeownership

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Crime and housing affordability can determine if households transition from renters to owners

Los Angeles -- Where a minority family chooses to live heavily influences their decision to rent or own, according to the results of a study at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk) that examined pathways to minority homeownership.

USC Lusk Center’s Stuart Gabriel, Ph.D. Named President of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

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Los Angeles – The director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk), Stuart Gabriel, Ph.D., has been named president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). The largest and most prestigious group of real estate and urban economists from academia, AREUEA begins its 40th year as a leading-edge resource for information and analysis in the fields of real estate development, planning and economics.

“It’s an honor to lead a group of the foremost academic experts in the field of real estate.

USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate is Searching for More Than One “Apprentice”

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Los Angeles – While millions of Americans are watching Donald Trump search for “The Apprentice” to help him build his real estate and business empire, there’s another kind of real estate search taking place in LA this week. Would you believe a train conductor, waiter, schoolteacher, lawyer and civil engineer can make the cut in the search for people who can change the face of depressed, inner-city neighborhoods across Southern California?

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