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With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors…

Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the…

Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing offers significantly reduced construction costs compared to conventional…

Annual expenditures for improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes are projected to decrease this year and into the first quarter of 2025, but at a moderating rate,…

As we noted in our most recent report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, the number of cost-burdened renters hit a record high in 2022 as half of all households spent more than…

Many cities experienced an urban renaissance as millennials came of age in the 2000s and early 2010s and reshaped neighborhoods in what came to be known as the ‘back to the…

Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across American cities that favored redistributing control of urban government to neighborhoods. While “neighborhoodism,” as…

In the US, millions of older adults struggle to afford both housing and the long-term care (LTC) services they increasingly require as they age, such as help with personal…

Our latest America’s Rental Housing report highlighted the first-of-its-kind 100 Percent Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts as an example of how…

In our recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, we noted that rental markets are finally cooling after substantial overheating. This slowdown in rent growth…