Gopal Ahluwalia, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton
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April 19, 2022
The 100 largest home builders in the US now account for about half of all new single-family home sales, up from just over a third two decades ago. However, according to “…
Gopal Ahluwalia, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton
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April 19, 2022
Although still fragmented, the homebuilding industry has undergone changes in recent years that have increased the share of production by larger builders. The top 100…
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 backdrop for the HIVE (Housing Innovation Vision Economics) Home Builder Survey was a shortage of housing and a serious housing affordability challenge – some would call…
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…
Compared to children who do not move to a new home, children who move are more likely to do worse in school, have more physical and mental health problems, and are more…