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 “…
The amount spent by homeowners on improvements to their homes—remodels, replacements, additions, structural alterations, and other activities that increase the value of the…
I recently retired as Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, a position that I have been extremely fortunate to hold since its…
While the US economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2020, spending on home improvements and repairs grew more than 3 percent, to nearly $420 billion, as households modified living…
During the pandemic, there has been a surge in do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement as people have used some of their extra time at home to undertake projects that…
After almost a decade of sustained growth in spending for home improvement projects, remodeling activity is likely to decline during the pandemic-induced economic downturn.…
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…
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…
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…
In 2017, New York’s $12.2 billion market for home improvements was about 45 percent greater than the next largest markets in Los Angeles ($8.6 billion) and Chicago ($8.2…