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A Home Builder Perspective on Housing Affordability and Construction Innovation
July 2019
The backdrop for the HIVE (Housing Innovation Vision Economics) Home...
Your Parents’ Financial Advice Is (Kind Of) Wrong
The Wall Street Journal
The typical US home now sells for more than four...
The State of the Nation's Housing Research Seminar
September 2019
In this brown bag lunch, Daniel McCue, a senior research...
Your Parents’ Financial Advice Is (Kind Of) Wrong
The Wall Street Journal
The typical US home now sells for more than four...
California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis
The New York Times
Nationally, about a quarter of tenants pay more than half...
The 10 Most Popular Home Improvements
The New York Times
Spending on home improvement has grown more than 50 percent...
The State of the Nation's Housing Research Seminar
September 2019
In this brown bag lunch, Daniel McCue, a senior research...
How Educational Choice Reshapes Residential Segregation's Causes and Consequences: Evidence from Los Angeles County
September 2019
Although choice-based school enrollment systems have substantially weakened the ties...
Aging in [a] Place Symposium: Planning, Design & Spatial Justice in Aging Societies
October 2019
The United States is an aging society where economic inequality...
A Home Builder Perspective on Housing Affordability and Construction Innovation
July 2019
The backdrop for the HIVE (Housing Innovation Vision Economics) Home...
GSE Reform: None or Mostly Done?
August 2019
Over the past decade, Congress and most housing finance policy...
Estimating the Gap in Affordable and Available Rental Units for Families
April 2019
While we typically think of family households as homeowners, renters...
Research and Tools
The American Dream or Just an Illusion? Understanding Land Contract Trends in the Midwest Pre- and Post-Crisis
August 29, 2019
This paper examines contract for deed activity across six Midwestern states to improve our understanding of this market and the places in which this activity occurs....
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The Shifting Profile of First-Time Homebuyers: 1997-2017
August 21, 2019
Who are recent first-time homebuyers? What kinds of homes do they buy? And have the answers to these questions changed over time in response to demographic and economic shifts? These questions garner substantial media attention, but the availability of nationally representative data on the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of first-time homebuyers and the physical attributes of their homes is limited. ...
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Eliminating Exclusionary Land Use Regulations Should Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
August 19, 2019
Evidence is accumulating that the multiple layers of exclusionary zoning and land use controls are a powerful contributor not just to higher housing costs, but also to declining rates of economic mobility and productivity growth, and to widening disparities in the wealth of white and black Americans. In this Industry Perspectives paper, Senior Fellow Michael Stegman looks back at five presidential commissions and federal initiatives to eliminate local barriers to housing development....
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Research Analyst
How State and Local Governments are Responding to the Affordability Crisis
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The country is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. As our recent State of the Nation’s Housing report...
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Senior Industry Fellow
First Reactions: The Treasury Plan for GSE Reform by Administrative Means
Monday, September 09, 2019
The US Treasury’s much-awaited Housing Reform Plan, identifying recommended legislative and administrative changes of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), issued...
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The 2018 GSE Stress Test Results: A Major Policy Success and Its Implications for the Proposed Capital Rule
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
New stress test results for the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, released on August 15, did...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Exploring a Decade of Contract for Deed Sales in the Midwest
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Contract for deed home sales, a once-notorious practice that seemingly faded into obscurity in the 1970s, have gained greater attention...
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The State of the Nation's Housing Research Seminar
Date: Friday, September 13, 2019
Location: Gund Hall, Room 109
In this brown bag lunch, Daniel McCue, a senior research associate at the Center who oversaw our latest State of the Nation's Housing report, will discuss the key findings, including how the shortfall in new housing is putting pressure on house prices and rents and eroding affordability for modest-income households in many markets.