Social housing makes up 29 percent of the total housing stock in the Netherlands. These social units, which in 2022 rented for an average of €560 per month (or about $600),…
With support from our Center, 13 students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) will spend the summer researching and working…
Storefronts often remain empty for months or years at a time, even in some of the world’s highest-rent retail districts. Between 2015 and 2019, for example, empty storefronts…
As tools like Alexa, Google Home, and Siri have shown, digitalization is changing how we live in our homes. While many of the changes are related to lifestyle, they also have…
Sharon Cornelissen, Luisa Godinez-Puig
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May 10, 2023
Residential racial segregation is not only on the rise, but is shifting locations: recent research found that 81 percent of all US metros over 200,000 residents were more…
Luisa Godinez-Puig, Sharon Cornelissen
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May 8, 2023
Racial segregation and the unequal allocation of resources have long shaped American cities, through a history of both overt and subtle racist policies and practices. While…
No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101.
Contrary to the…
Sharon Cornelissen, Christine Jang-Trettien
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April 25, 2023
In today’s overheated housing market, gentrification remains a pressing concern. Yet, disinvestment and decline remain surprisingly common in lower-income neighborhoods.…
After more than a decade of continuous growth, annual spending on improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes is expected to decline by early next year, according to our…