Geoff Boeing, Julia Harten, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano
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March 1, 2023
In recent years, digitalization has reshaped the housing search. Today, online platforms facilitate housing market information exchange and expand the legibility of the…
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…
Persistently large gaps in homeownership between whites and Hispanics are a major contributor to wealth inequality. This article considers whether Hispanics and whites are…
Our new working paper explores healthy home concerns and behaviors among American homeowners and renters. We show that both groups are interested in improving the indoor…
Mariel Wolfson, Elizabeth La Jeunesse
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March 25, 2016
Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…
Chris Herbert, Daniel McCue, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano
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February 18, 2016
The housing crisis and ensuing Great Recession of the late 2000s resulted in millions of homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure and millions more losing substantial…
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…
This Spring, I attended the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day conference attracted over 1,000 attendees, including more than 150…
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,…