With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors…
Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the…
This paper shows how different housing submarkets are linked by residential vacancy chains – the series of moves across housing units initiated by the construction of new…
Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing offers significantly reduced construction costs compared to conventional…
Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households at a time when house…
Annual expenditures for improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes are projected to decrease this year and into the first quarter of 2025, but at a moderating rate,…
As we noted in our most recent report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, the number of cost-burdened renters hit a record high in 2022 as half of all households spent more than…
Riordan Frost, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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March 14, 2024
Many cities experienced an urban renaissance as millennials came of age in the 2000s and early 2010s and reshaped neighborhoods in what came to be known as the ‘back to the…
Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across American cities that favored redistributing control of urban government to neighborhoods. While “neighborhoodism,” as…
Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across major American cities calling for returning control of urban government to the neighborhood level. Although…