This working paper compares rental housing in 12 countries in Europe and North America, using individual records from household surveys. Differences in housing…
A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades.
Starting in the 1960s, the United…
Despite the private for-profit sector's importance in affordable housing development, there has been relatively little research on the sector. This working paper explores one…
Chris Herbert, Daniel McCue, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano
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February 18, 2016
The housing crisis and ensuing Great Recession of the late 2000s resulted in millions of homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure and millions more losing substantial…
Between 2004 and 2014, aggregate outstanding student loan debt has more than tripled in real value. Even as households shed other types of non-housing-related debt, student…
W15-2: Changing socio-demographic characteristics of young adult households (those with householders ages 25 to 34) are having an impact on their propensities for…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 26, 2014
With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But when interest rates notched up at mid-year, momentum…
W14-3: While numerous studies have sought to identify determinants of individual decisions about owning and renting housing, very few have considered the role that…
HBTL-15: Empirical research on the causes of financial crises has grown in recent decades. Early work, such as that by Kaminsky and Reinhart, helped establish the…
HBTL-14: In this paper, Reid reports on the findings from four focus groups and twenty individual interviews designed to examine how households make decisions about…