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Tenure Transitions Are More Common Than We Think

Kristin Perkins • October 3, 2018

Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…
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Family Instability… It’s Not Just Mom and Dad

Kristin Perkins • March 29, 2018

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…
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Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development

Eric Belsky • March 10, 2014

Tackling urban poverty and attending to its spatial manifestations is vitally important. The speed with which many regions of the world are urbanizing, the haphazard spatial…
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A Housing Recovery, but Not for All Americans

Eric Belsky • June 26, 2013

Driven by rising home prices and growing demand, the U.S. housing recovery is well underway, according to our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report released today.…
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Watch the Inventory – and the Investors

Eric Belsky • February 13, 2013

As housing demand has been coming up, the inventory of homes for sale on the market has been going down.  This tightening of supply relative to demand is the bedrock of the…
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More Working Americans Struggling to Afford Housing

Eric Belsky • December 13, 2012

With growth in incomes lagging growth in housing and utility costs, the share of Americans spending large sums of their income on housing has climbed nearly uninterrupted for…
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The Linchpin of the Housing Recovery

Eric Belsky • September 12, 2012

Credit is the lifeblood of housing.  Without credit, housing does not get built and home buying is possible only for those with enough cash to cover the full costs. We live…