W09-2: Real estate owned (REO) housing resulting from the recent foreclosure crisis threatens to destabilize low- and moderate-income neighborhoods across the country.…
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January 16, 2009
Although multifamily housing finance is not the source of the current credit crisis, it has been disrupted by it. Even though multifamily rental loan performance has held up…
W08-5: A principal finding from the Revisiting Rental Housing Symposium convened by the Joint Center for Housing Studies in November 2006 is that a great deal has been…
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June 23, 2008
Housing markets contracted for a second straight year in 2007. The national median single-family home price fell in nominal terms for the first time in 40 years of…
W08-3: This paper inventories strategies for maintaining affordable housing toward perpetuity in hot markets in an increasing number of locales. Long-term affordable…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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April 30, 2008
The damage from today’s mortgage foreclosure crisis reaches deep into the rental market. With affordability already a long-standing problem, the current housing debacle not…
RR07-11: The paper then reviews local housing policy in three case-study cities in states with different approaches to housing and land use policy: California,…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 11, 2007
After setting records for home sales, single-family starts, and house price appreciation in 2005, housing markets abruptly reversed last year. In 2006, total home sales fell…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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April 1, 2007
W07-2: Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summitcommunicates essential findings from the symposium Revisiting Rental Housing: A National…
RR07-12: The strengths and weaknesses of nonprofit organizations in developing and owning subsidized rental housing are examined. In the course of this study, a number…