Understanding the Housing Collapse: What is to Blame and What Can Be Done? Understanding the Housing Collapse: What is to Blame and What Can Be Done?

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Morris Auditorium
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Avenue

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 Presentation

Mayor Thomas M. Menino
City of Boston

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Audio (MP3) sound

 

Presentations:

Housing Market Overview
Alicia C. Sasser
Senior Economist
New England Public Policy Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Presentation pdf | Audio (MP3) sound

On the Origins of the Crisis
Paul S. Willen
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Presentation pdf | Audio (MP3) sound

Credit 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
Presentation pdf | Audio (MP3) sound

Proposals and Prospects for Change
Raphael Bostic
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Development Research
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Audio (MP3) sound

 

 

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) sound