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In 2012, the government of Colombia launched a national program to provide 100,000 free housing units to the country’s poorest residents, including some of the more than six…

How are neighborhood communities created when the government provides free housing to a specific population? The paper examines the formation processes of displaced…

Around the world, mayors and other urban officials confront significant obstacles when they try to use investments in social housing to help make their cities more inclusive…

Governing authorities in cities around the world are facing challenges to incentivize compact and more inclusive cities through investments in social housing. This paper…

This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint…

W06-4: Metropolitan Boston, one of the nation’s largest urban areas, is in the midst of sweeping transformations. It is growing slowly in population but is sprawling…

Record numbers of foreign-born individuals and households currently reside in the United States, substantially affecting housing demand. As of 1998, the 11 million immigrant-…

This paper addresses several basic questions regarding second homes: what is or should be counted as a second home; how many second homes exist in the United States; where…

W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…

W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…