Researchers at Arizona State University investigated how actions and regulations have shaped the housing market, limits on homeownership and potential solutions to the problems created by discrimination against some buyers.
Housing discrimination, including disastrous government-supported redlining, is hurting south Phoenix neighborhoods more than 50 years after it was struck down as illegal and predatory.
Startups aimed at streamlining the house-flipping process are seeking out rental property owners as the popularity of single-family rentals continues to grow.
When the Great Recession hit in 2008, Arizona’s booming construction industry was sidelined and has struggled to recover ever since, according to Lee McPheters, the Director of the Economic Outlook Center at WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.