RR07-6: For many years, policymakers have agreed that low-income, working-age people who receive government rent subsidies ought to strive for self-sufficiency and that…
RR07-3: At a congressional hearing in 1948, representative A.S. Mike Monroney argued that the construction of new, subsidized rental housing improves the surrounding…
RR07-15: There are 18 million units in one to four unit rental housing properties in the United States, making up half of the nation’s rental housing stock, yet this…
RR07-8: Nearly one-fifth of the rental housing stock is in smaller, multifamily apartment buildings with between 5 and 49 units. Even though relatively large shares of…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2006
The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 8, 2006
In any given year, some 34 million US households make their homes in rental housing. Like the general population, renters are highly diverse in demographic and income terms,…
W05-12: Unmet demand for affordable rental housing in most U.S. housing markets represents an opportunity for nonprofit organizations. Despite the potential benefits…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2005
House prices, residential investment, and home sales all set records again in 2004. But higher short-term interest rates and the strongest one-year price appreciation since…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…