While the Joint Center produces regular projections of home remodeling and repair activity at the national level, new analysis of the American Housing Surveys (AHS) suggests…
The robust gains in the national home remodeling market in recent years mask significant variation in spending trends at the local level. This research examining metro-level…
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…
Since 2007, the Joint Center for Housing Studies has projected short-term trends in home remodeling activity with its quarterly Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, or…
Mariel Wolfson, Elizabeth La Jeunesse
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March 25, 2016
Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…
W15-4: The dramatic aging of the U.S. population in coming decades is expected to have important implications for the home remodeling industry. Of the over 25 million…
N15-1: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsors a biennial longitudinal survey of the U.S. housing stock and its inhabitants known as the American…
W14-2: Due to the many obstacles to scale economies facing the residential remodeling industry, such as low barriers to entry, volatile business cycles, highly…
W13-5: Our aging population is increasingly the focus of new planning and policy initiatives. Their unprecedented numbers (by 2030 the population of people 65 and over…