Understanding the Housing Collapse: What is to Blame and What Can Be Done?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.
m.
Morris Auditorium
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Co-sponsored with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Research Department, this conference featured an overview of current conditions, presentations of new research on housing, credit markets, and public policies; and discussions of public policies that might stabilize housing markets in the future.
Welcome:
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki
Director of the New England Public Policy Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Opening Remarks:
Eric S. Rosengren
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Remarks and PresentationMayor Thomas M. Menino
City of BostonWelcome and Opening Remarks: Audio (MP3)
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Presentations:
Housing Market Overview
Alicia C. Sasser
Senior Economist
New England Public Policy Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Presentation| Audio (MP3)
On the Origins of the Crisis
Paul S. Willen
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
PresentationCredit Markets and the Great Housing Convulsion
Edward L. Glaeser
Glimp Professor of Economics and Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Harvard University
PresentationProposals and Prospects for Change
Raphael Bostic
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Development Research
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Audio (MP3)
Commentators:
Tina Brooks
Undersecretary
MA Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development
Thomas N. O'Brien
Managing Director
The HYM Investment Group, LLC and Chairman
Greater Boston Real Estate Board
Rebecca Regan
Chief Operating Officer
Boston Community Capital and President
Boston Community Loan Fund
Closing Remarks:
David T. Ellwood
Dean
Harvard Kennedy School
Audio (MP3)
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