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R -- HOUSING FINANCE RESEARCH AND MACROECONOMICS SOL DU100C000005978 DUE 042595 POC ELOISE F. GANTT, CONTRACT SPECIALIST, (202) 708-1585, EXT 138 A. DOLORES AMMONS-BARNETT, CONTRACTING OFFICER, 708-1585, EXT 134. HUD intends to issue a solicittion for research services to cover housing finance and macroeconomics as a means of generating information and findings on major programs and policy issues. The quick response time to ongoing and developing policy concerns that this research will provide will add a major dimension to HUD's ability to perform the above responsibilities. This research will be of the highest quality on housing finance issues of major importance for the Department. This effort may take many forms, from primary research on the qualitative and quantitative impacts of a proposed program on market innovation, to an overview of the housing finance research agenda by leading experts in the field. An example of these finance and macroeconomic topics are: (1) Impact of FHA restructuring on FHA's role in mortgage markets, (2) Study of new types of mortgage instruments, (3) Study of house price appreciation rates in different types of markets, (4) Development of interest rate projection models used in pricing adjustable rate mortgages and mortgage-related securities, (5) Analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data to identify the roles of various market participants, (6) Study of the determinants of mortgage default behavior, focusing on separating individual effects from neighborhood effects, (7) Development of models for predicting appraised values on FHA properties; and (8) Study of the determinants of first-time homeownership. This solicitation will be available on or about 03/24/95. Offerors may obtain a copy of the solicitation by submitting a written request with two-self addressed gummed labels for RFP-DU100C000005978 to Contracting Officer, Attn: ARCS/EFG, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th St., SW, Room 5258, Wash., DC 20410-3000. No FAX request will be accepted. (0067)

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