From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. This post was written by Ben Hecht, President and Chief Executive Officer of Living Cities. His…
The 2010 decennial Census provided new data to look at urban growth patterns over the past decade, enabling us to update our views on the latest trends in suburban sprawl and…
Every ten years the Decennial Census provides a definitive count of the country’s population and households, a critical benchmark of decadal growth trends in these key…
New survey data released by the Census Bureau last week provides more strong evidence that the nascent housing recovery is being built on a solid foundation. The latest…
As the United States continues to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it is worthwhile to consider the ways Americans responded to similar…
Over the coming decade, the home improvement market will increasingly rely on older homeowners to generate growth. A previous post pointed out that baby boomers will continue…
An improving housing market and record low interest rates are driving projections of strong gains in home improvement activity through the end of the year and into the first…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives will feature posts by guest bloggers. We are pleased that the first was written by Erika Poethig, Acting Assistant Secretary for…
October in Cambridge means the Head of the Charles, fall foliage, students settling in, and the Joint Center’s annual John T. Dunlop Lecture.
Last week at the Harvard…
Over the next two decades, the entire baby boom generation (age 45-64 in 2010) will cross the 65+ age threshold. Baby boom homeowners have dominated housing markets for so…
