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,…
Providing between $25,000 and $100,000 per unit in assistance for shared equity homeownership opportunities would allow approximately 6.6 million additional households to…
Kristin Perkins, Shannon Rieger, Jonathan Spader, Chris Herbert
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October 21, 2019
Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…
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…
Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…
Children experience many changes in their households while they are growing up. But while we often think about divorcing and remarrying parents as common changes in household…
Research on family instability typically measures changes in coresident parents, but children also experience changes among other household members. The likelihood of…
Foreclosures have negative effects not only for the people who lose their homes, but also for the neighborhoods where they lived.
In an article that recently appeared in…
