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Economic History: The First Rung of Housing Markets
The concept of first-rung housing isn't new. Homeowners have rented out single rooms going back to our nation's colonial era. Widowers and empty nesters who had more space than they needed would turn their single-family homes into boarding houses, offering a warm bed and a hot meal to guests traveling through town."Early single-room rentals provided a mutually beneficial relationship," wrote Andrew Justus, a housing policy expert at the Niskanen Center, in a 2022 analysis. "The arrangement allowed newcomers and those who needed no-frills housing to access housing that met their immediate ...
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Around the Fed: Measuring Economic Security
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Around the Fed : The double whammy of foreclosures
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2010/q4/around_the_fed_weblinks.cfm
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Tobacco stimulus: Virginia and North Carolina are among the states using money from their 1998 settlement with tobacco companies to spur economic development
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2011/q1/feature2_weblinks.cfm
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A Piece of the Action
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At the Richmond Fed: Taking a Closer Look at Housing
Housing is an important consideration as the Federal Reserve promotes price stability and maximum sustainable employment. The Richmond Fed has spent the last year and a half closely studying this sector of the economy for that very reason, with a particular focus on the small towns and rural communities of its region.
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Asian import : testing the Bay waters