Perhaps nothing speaks greater volume about changes in modern American life than the rise of the single-person household. A recent paper authored by Census Bureau researchers…
Last December, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development released the latest figures on the percentage of affordable housing in each of the state’s…
Since 2000, nonprofits and government entities have increasingly sought to diminish negative perceptions associated with manufactured housing by sponsoring programs that…
This post kicks off a month-long series that our colleagues at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation are doing on affordable housing as a challenge to the…
Earlier this month, the Joint Center for Housing Studies, together with the Loeb Fellowship and African American Student Unionat the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD),…
The healthy gains in residential remodeling activity estimated for 2014 and the first part of 2015 are expected to decelerate, but then gain a little more traction by the end…
The nation’s older population has grown tremendously since the first of the baby boomers turned 50 in the mid-1990s, with the number of 50-64 year olds nearly doubling…
According to the Census Bureau, the national homeownership rate dropped again in the second quarter of this year, to 63.4 percent. This level represents a nearly 50 year low…
Every two years, the Joint Center releases a report about the national home improvement industry. This year’s report, Emerging Trends in the Remodeling Market, includes…
In his ambitious Fiscal Year 2016 budget submission to Congress last month, President Obama requested funding increases for nearly all of HUD’s programs, with significant…
