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…
Surging home prices and rising mortgage rates that have made it harder for all renters to become homeowners have had a particularly dramatic impact on Black renters. Indeed,…
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…
Surging home prices have made it even more difficult for millions of renters to become homeowners across the US. In nearly half of the largest 100 US metro areas, the income…
Black homeowners not only have primary mortgages with higher interest rates than white homeowners with similar incomes, they also have higher interest rates than white…
The newly released American Community Survey (ACS) shows a continued decrease in cost burdens in 2019. While the share of all homeowners that were cost-burdened (spending…
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…