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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Race, Rental Yields, and Housing Decay in Manhattan

By: Tom Nicholas and Christophe Spaenjers
We develop a new dataset on real estate transactions in Manhattan (1912–1939), linked to federal Census records (1930 and 1940) and property images used for tax assessment purposes (around 1940 and 1980). We analyze investor returns and incentives to maintain... View Details
Keywords: Housing Markets; Rental Yields; Urban Decay; Race; Manhattan
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Nicholas, Tom, and Christophe Spaenjers. "Race, Rental Yields, and Housing Decay in Manhattan." Working Paper, May 2025.
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

such areas. "The corrosive effects of urban decay have pushed many cities into a devastating downward slide. Unless business leaders are centrally involved in generating solutions to the pressing View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 11 Apr 2016
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System Overload

  • 08 Mar 2017
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Helping vets become resident landlords

four-unit, or a five-unit, and one of those units can be a commercial unit. “So the original thought is surging military vets into the decayed urban core of post-industrial cities, where land is vacant and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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