Contact Information
Mailing Address:
- Housing Affordability Initiative
MIT Center for Real Estate
77 Massachusetts Avenue, W31-310
Cambridge, MA 02139
Website: http://web.mit.edu/cre/research/hai/
Staff Contact Information:
- Lynn Fisher, Director
Telephone: 617-252-1685
Fax: 617-258-6991
Email: lfisher@mit.edu - Professor Lynn M. Fisher is an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (effective July 2008) and at the Center for Real Estate at MIT. She currently holds the Ford Development Chair and is Director of the MIT/CRE Housing Affordability Initiative. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Smeal School of Business at Pennsylvania State University in 2002 where she concentrated in real estate finance and microeconomics. Her academic research has been examining the influence of laws and legal institutions on the efficiency of contracts and bargaining outcomes in real estate markets. Recently, she has employed both bargaining theory and empirical evidence in exploring the relationship between local government regulators and private-sector developers in the context of land-use regulations. In other on-going research on residential real estate markets, she is investigating the history of the laws, norms and rules governing the right to prepay residential mortgages in the U.S., mortgage contracting variation across legal systems, and the impact of homeownership on labor markets. With colleagues at the MIT/CRE Housing Affordability Initiative, she has also spent the last several years working to produce an economically meaningful measure of affordable housing for regional policy makers. Her teaching portfolio at MIT includes graduate courses on housing markets, real estate development, and the legal issues in development.
- Research Contact
- Holly Horrigan
Telephone: 617-252-1687
Fax: 617-258-6991
Email: hthorr@mit.edu
