In her closing remarks at the recent Foundations for the Future of Housing Conference, Julia Stasch, past president of the MacArthur Foundation, astutely observed that years…
Elizabeth La Jeunesse, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Jonathan Spader
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September 17, 2019
Housing affordability has been a growing concern across the US over the past three decades. Indeed, between 1990 and 2017, the number of units renting for under $600…
Housing affordability is an issue that affects households across the US, yet varies by metropolitan region. Our 2019 State of the Nation’s Housing report includes an…
Of the more than 77 million homeowners in the US, an estimated 22 million completed at least one home improvement project in 2017, according to our latest Improving America’s…
Smart home technology—widely understood as devices that enable remote control and/or monitoring of household systems—is expected to be a major area of growth for the…
Although homeownership rates rose for all racial and ethnic groups in 2016-2018, rates for black owners rose at a slower pace than for other groups. Consequently, the…
Annual gains in homeowner spending on improvements are expected to moderate across more than half of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas in 2019, according to new…
Americans are increasingly worried about the links between health and everyday environmental exposures in their homes, according to “Healthy Home Remodeling: Consumer Trends…
Consumer concerns over potential health impacts of household products and the built environment are by no means new, yet in recent years interest in this topic has grown…