This piece is the final installment in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a…
This piece is the third in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a report…
This piece is the second in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a report…
This piece is the first in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a report…
How can developers, architects, and contractors address multifamily housing costs through design and construction decisions? Or, phrased differently, what are the limits or…
Demand for multifamily housing, especially affordable and middle-income rental housing, is rising as the nation continues to add new households. However, overall housing…
Today, when more than one in three American households live in rental housing, ongoing erosion in renter incomes combined with ever rising rents has pushed the number of…
End of year festivities and Congressional budget deliberations in 2012 unfortunately diverted attention away from the critical task of ensuring that all Americans have access…
During the past decade, the housing finance system contributed to a boom-and-bust cycle that triggered the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. A brief but…
Chris Herbert, Eric Belsky, William Apgar
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April 30, 2012
W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…