PRESS RELEASE

CONTACT: Elizabeth England: (617) 495-7640

Monday, June 4, 2007

(Cambridge, MA) On June 11, 2007 the Joint Center for Housing Studies will present research that analyzes housings markets, economic demographics and social trends.  These trends shape the future of where and how we live.

WHO

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is Harvard University’s center for information and research on housing in the United States.  Established in 1959, the Joint Center is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government.

Speakers to include:

Nicolas P. Retsinas, director, Eric S. Belsky, executive director, and Rachel Drew, research analyst, Joint Center for Housing Studies

Gary Garczynski, chairman, National Housing Endowment
Jonathan Kempner, CEO, Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Moises Loza , executive director, Housing Assistance Council

WHAT

Release of The State of the Nation's Housing 2007.

This annual report looks at the current pressures facing the nation’s housing markets and beyond them to the underpinnings of long run housing supply and demand.   Copies of the report, press release and fact sheet will be available to the media on June 4, 2007.

WHERE

Ford Foundation
320 East 43rd Street
New York, NY

Check-in at reception area.

WHEN

Monday, June 11, 2007 at 11:00 am

CONTACT

Elizabeth England, program coordinator, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies,
(617) 495-7640 or elizabeth_england@harvard.edu

The press release and an embargoed copy of the report will be available to the press on June 5, 2007.

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For more information about the Joint Center and its programs,
please call (617) 495-7908.