Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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May 1, 2001
The Fannie Mae Foundation and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University convened a series of Issues Forums during the fall and winter of 2000-2001 to provide…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Housing markets began the twentyfirst century on a high note. Buoyed by the longest economic expansion in history, home sales, homeownership rates, and the value of…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 2000
Breakthroughs in medicine and improved lifelong health are changing the way people in their 60s and 70s look at their housing choices, while greater financial resources and…
Robert Litan, Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, Susan White Haag
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April 20, 2000
In November 1999, President Clinton signed into law financial modernization legislation (referred to herein as the Financial Modernization Act (FMA)), perhaps the most…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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July 12, 1999
The residential remodeling industry now rivals home building in size, generating expenditures of about $150 billion a year and accounting for about 2% of gross domestic…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 1999
Housing had another record-setting year in 1998. Home sales reached new peaks, housing starts topped 1.6 million units, and the value of residential construction hit an…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 1998
Now in its eighth year of sustained growth, the U.S. economy has brought unprecedented strength to housing production and sales. Spurred by strong employment growth, low…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 5, 1997
As the end of 1997 approaches, sweeping public polity initiatives are joining with long-term demographic, income, and mobility trends to fundamentally alter the state of the…
This report is modeled after TheState of the Nation's Housing reports produced by the Joint Center for Housing Studies since the early 1980s. These reports provide a…
