In 2017, the US added more homeowners than any year since at least 2005, when the American Community Survey (ACS) was first fully implemented.
However, the nation’s stock of…
With interest rates ticking upward in 2018 and the prospect of further rate increases to come, the era of historically-low mortgage rates may be ending. While many homeowners…
Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…
Increasing and stabilizing homeownership is a tangible means of fostering inclusion in communities experiencing rising home values and gentrification pressures, such as…
New York City is an increasingly expensive place to live, and housing prices are dramatically outpacing incomes. In fact, over the past 25 years, home prices have increased…
This paper, by Christopher Herbert, Managing Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Community of…
State and local governments account for about 40 percent of all tax collections in the United States, but federal taxes command most of the attention in academic literature.…
The papers from the third panel of the Joint Center’s symposium on A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequalityfocus on policies that might…
