Stagnant incomes and tight credit since the recession have worked in tandem to keep many renters from becoming homeowners in recent years, even as prices plummeted. Now, as…
For American renters, 2013 marked another year with a record-high number of cost burdened households - those paying more than 30 percent of income for housing...
Keynote Address for “What Works in Community Investing: A Community Development Summit”Delivered November 8, 2013Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Designby…
MISC13-1: Homeownership rates continue to plummet throughout the country, disproportionately penalizing African Americans, Hispanics, and younger people. Recent…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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November 30, 2003
The dream of equal, fair, and expanded access to credit in low-income communities was never more within the nation’s grasp. Three decades ago credit for home mortgages and…