No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101.
Contrary to the…
Across the United States, many institutions, private businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and citizens have come together to create and govern public and…
Gopal Ahluwalia, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton
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April 19, 2022
The 100 largest home builders in the US now account for about half of all new single-family home sales, up from just over a third two decades ago. However, according to “…
Single-family zoning has a target on its back. Long condemned for creating suburban sprawl and excluding Black Americans, immigrants, and low-income people from residential…
The amount spent by homeowners on improvements to their homes—remodels, replacements, additions, structural alterations, and other activities that increase the value of the…
I recently retired as Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, a position that I have been extremely fortunate to hold since its…
The federal government’s controversial fair housing rule is back in play, which makes the release of a new book about it timely indeed.
In 2015, during the Obama…
While the US economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2020, spending on home improvements and repairs grew more than 3 percent, to nearly $420 billion, as households modified living…
During the pandemic, there has been a surge in do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement as people have used some of their extra time at home to undertake projects that…
After almost a decade of sustained growth in spending for home improvement projects, remodeling activity is likely to decline during the pandemic-induced economic downturn.…
