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A City Divided: A Brief History of Segregation in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2018 Buffalo-Niagara is one of the most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the nation. While racial segregation has declined slightly in recent years, economic segregation has increased, resulting in neighborhood conditions growing worse – not better
Blatto, Anna
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No App, No Entry: Conceptualizing Digital Technology Captivity in Service Access
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We introduce Digital Technology Captivity (DTC), a form of consumer vulnerability that arises when digital technologies become the mandatory gateway to essential services. When access is tied to systems that feel unfamiliar, complex, or intimidating—and when preferred alternatives are limited—consumers may experience heightened vulnerability ...
Carolyn Wilson‐Nash +4 more
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HUD Homes: How they Can Promote Home Ownership and Reduce House Abandonment [PDF]
, 2008 For many, the American Dream still means owning a home. The home ownership rate in the U.S. fell in the fourth quarter of 2007 to its lowest level since the beginning of 2002--this from a record high in the middle of 2004. What is more alarming, however,
Choi-Bose, Yumi
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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Mortgage markets, collateral constraints, and monetary policy: Do institutional factors matter? [PDF]
, 2006 We study the role of institutional characteristics of mortgage markets in affecting the strength and timing of the effects of monetary policy shocks on house prices and consumption in a sample of OECD countries. We document three facts: (1) there is significant divergence in the structure of mortgage markets across the main industrialised countries; (2)
Calza, Alessandro +2 more
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Measuring Housing Affordability: Looking Beyond the Median [PDF]
We draw a distinction between the concepts of purchase affordability (whether a household is able to borrow enough funds to purchase a house) and repayment affordability (the burden imposed on a household of repaying the mortgage). We operationalize this
Quan Gan, Robert J. Hill
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A Global Survey of Community Reinvestment Laws: The Obligation of the Private Sector to Serve the Underserved in Several Countries [PDF]
, 2004 Summaries of the community reinvestment legislation in the United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Brazil, South Africa, India, Australia, and ...
Malcolm Bush, Tom Feltner
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Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo +3 more
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Mind the Gap - Issues in Overcoming the Information, Income, Wealth, and Supply Gaps Facing Potential Buyers of Affordable Homes [PDF]
, 2001 While the overall homeownership rate in the United States is at an all-time high, the gap between the ownership rates of low-income and higher-income households remains wide.
Doug Dylla, J. Michael Collins
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Research in Nursing &Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Knowledge of association between violence and chronic pain in men is limited by neglect of violence experiences as perpetrator, disregard of heterogeneity in cumulative lifetime violence severity (CLVS), weak understanding of mediation pathways, and inattention to social determinants of health (SDOH).
Judith Wuest +4 more
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