Last week I was invited to testify by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee in its first hearing of the new Congress on “The State of Housing 2023.” I…
For over 30 years, our Center has published its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, which provides a comprehensive review of trends and drivers of housing market…
For over 30 years, our Center has published its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, which provides a comprehensive review of trends and drivers of housing market…
After a record-shattering year in 2021, the housing market is at an inflection point. Higher interest rates have taken some heat out of the homebuying market, and the large…
Chris Herbert, James Stockard, Ben Hecht
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December 1, 2020
Could fresh, “outside-of-the-box” thinking help address the seemingly intractable problem of rental affordability?
Last spring, we decided to explore that question by…
When the Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates the extent of housing affordability problems, we typically start by measuring the number and share of households paying…
Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue
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September 25, 2018
The 30-percent of income standard is a widely used and accepted measure of the extent of housing affordability problems across the country. While simple and easy to implement…
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth for the US economy, according to the latest The State of the Nation’s Housing…
Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is just being released today, but it has already generated an amazing buzz which started with an…
Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics
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September 21, 2015
Earlier today, Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies released Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015–2025, which…
