Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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February 27, 2017
Rising house prices and incomes, an aging housing stock, and a pickup in household growth are all contributing to today’s strong home improvement market. Demand is robust in…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 13, 2016
By 2035, more than one in five people in the US will be aged 65 and older and one in three households will be headed by someone in that age group. This growth will increase…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 22, 2016
With household growth finally picking up, housing should help boost the economy. Although homeownership rates are still falling, the bottom may be in sight as the lingering…
The map shows the changes in population for each county between July 2014 and July 2015. Click on the map to launch, then click on a county to display its data. Select a…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 9, 2015
Rental housing is home to a growing share of the nation’s increasingly diverse households, but even with the strong rebound in multifamily construction, tight rental markets…
In 2014, just under half (49.3 percent) of American renters were housing cost burdened, spending more than 30 percent of income on housing costs. This represents a record…