The JCHS household projections call for 12.2 million additional households formed between 2018 and 2028. This is 1.4 million lower than the 13.6 million growth projected by…
How widespread is the downtown resurgence among the current generation of young adults 25 to 34 years old, often referred to as the Millennials? Answering the question, this…
Cities across the United States have been actively planning for climate change for 20 years, but equity considerations, such as climate investments' impact on disadvantaged…
Doubling-up is a common experience—nearly half of kids experience at least one double-up during childhood—yet we know little about the cumulative effects of these households…
The need for preserving affordable housing is often seen as a “crisis” only in those real estate markets with extremely limited supply of housing and rapid rates of price…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 14, 2017
A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to our 2017 America’s Rental Housing report. Fewer new renter…
Research on family instability typically measures changes in coresident parents, but children also experience changes among other household members. The likelihood of…
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger
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September 19, 2017
Residential segregation by race and ethnicity is a longstanding challenge in the United States, with the racial and economic geography of communities throughout the nation…
For a brief window between the late 1930s and the late 1940s, life insurance companies built approximately 50,000 middle-income rental apartments across the United States. At…
Residential mobility is a common experience among Americans, especially children. Most previous research finds residential mobility has negative effects on children's…