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…
Hispanics are much less likely to be homeowners than non-Hispanic whites, and in a new working paper (presented earlier this year at the Center’s Symposium on Housing Tenure…
Stagnant incomes and tight credit since the recession have worked in tandem to keep many renters from becoming homeowners in recent years, even as prices plummeted. Now, as…
The US homeownership rate peaked in late 2004 and has been in a steady decline ever since, dropping 5.5 percentage points, according to the Housing Vacancy Survey. Annual…
Homebuyer affordability remains near an all-time high, so where are all the first-time homebuyers? According to indexes that incorporate gross measures of house prices,…
Irene Lew, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano
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October 23, 2013
In the fall of 2011, a meeting of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners convened by the What Works Collaborative highlighted the dearth of research examining the role…
With the continued growth of house prices across the country, talk of a housing bubble is beginning to reappear in the headlines. House price-to-income ratios are often used…