Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, founding principal of Bernheimer Architecture (BA), opened this year’s Dunlop Lecture with a blank slide. “That’s it, that’s what I have drawn of the…
A look back at our most-read blogs shows that specific effects of the pandemic on housing markets, racial disparities in housing, and national living patterns grew clearer…
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness was on the rise in the United States. The Center’s 20th annual John T. Dunlop lecture, held virtually on October 13th,…
The housing projects Columbia Point and Commonwealth illustrate two different strategies the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) used to cope with the failure of post-war public…
The deep ties between housing and education that foster segregation, and strategies for overcoming those ties, are the focus of four new papers released today. Originally…
Fostering inclusion in gentrifying neighborhoods (rather than opening up exclusive suburbs) is the focus of four working papers released today by the Joint Center for Housing…
The design of housing voucher programs, site selection for new subsidized units, and federal, state, and local housing programs can all encourage—or hamper—efforts to create…
What would it take to meet the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act’s requirement that federal entities use their power to “affirmatively further” fair housing? …
What would it take to make new neighborhoods, and remake old ones, so that large, complex, metropolitan areas moved decisively toward racial and economic integration? What…
How do household decisions about where to live perpetuate residential segregation, and what would it take for such choices to result in more inclusive neighborhoods? Three…