In the fall of 2011 the What Works Collaborative convened a meeting of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to help frame a research agenda to inform policy making…
Today, the Joint Center for Housing Studies posted its latest household projections. These new projections incorporate several updates to data that were made since our last…
In a previous post, I suggested that elderly baby boomers may be less likely, in the future, to move to newly built “senior” housing in the numbers that many housing analysts…
Tackling urban poverty and attending to its spatial manifestations is vitally important. The speed with which many regions of the world are urbanizing, the haphazard spatial…
At a recent event in Washington, DC, the Joint Center released its biennial America’s Rental Housing report. Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban…
Today, when more than one in three American households live in rental housing, ongoing erosion in renter incomes combined with ever rising rents has pushed the number of…
Although household growth is the major driver of housing demand, getting an accurate picture of recent trends in this measure is difficult, especially when Census surveys…
Hardly a day goes by when we are not reminded about how rapidly our population will age over the next several decades as the baby boom crosses the 65+ threshold. For housing…
The recent Joint Center report, America’s Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs, reiterates the extent of severe cost burdens faced by renters, especially those…
The home remodeling market should see strong growth in 2014, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA). The double-digit gains in annual home…
