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Tenure and Location Choice among Hispanic Households
October 2019
Persistently large gaps in homeownership between whites and Hispanics are...
A Year Of Rejuvenation For The US Housing Industry
Forbes
Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies projects that annual...
Addressing Homelessness: What Can (and Can’t) Architecture Do?
March 2020
Over the past two decades, Michael Maltzan, FAIA and his...
A Year Of Rejuvenation For The US Housing Industry
Forbes
Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies projects that annual...
As Home Prices Soar, Utah Lawmakers Want To Help Low-Income Residents Pay Their Rent
WBUR
The most salient issue in the current housing market is...
Leader of L.A.’s Homelessness Agency to Resign
The New York Times
Peter Lynn’s tenure has been marked by a frustrating contradiction:...
Addressing Homelessness: What Can (and Can’t) Architecture Do?
March 2020
Over the past two decades, Michael Maltzan, FAIA and his...
In Pursuit of Equitable Development: Lessons from Washington, Detroit, and Boston
April 2020
Equitable development, a new concept in planning and community development,...
Tenure and Location Choice among Hispanic Households
October 2019
Persistently large gaps in homeownership between whites and Hispanics are...
The American Dream or Just an Illusion? Understanding Land Contract Trends in the Midwest Pre- and Post-Crisis
August 2019
This paper examines contract for deed activity across six Midwestern...
The Shifting Profile of First-Time Homebuyers: 1997-2017
August 2019
Who are recent first-time homebuyers? What kinds of homes do...
Research and Tools
Homeownership Experiences Following Criminal Justice Contact
December 09, 2019
Recent work has highlighted the significance of incarceration for wealth accrual and black-white gaps in homeownership, but the monetary sanctions and disruptions to employment that often accompany even low-level criminal justice contact may also have important consequences for individual homeownership and racial disparities in homeownership. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper considers the potential of a broad variety of criminal justice system interactions to shape homeownership experiences among young adults. ...
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Mortgage Journeys: A Video Ethnography of the Homebuying and Mortgage Process
November 26, 2019
Prior research suggests that comparison shopping for mortgages when purchasing a home helps secure a lower interest rate. Yet we have only limited data about the mortgage shopping behaviors of lower- and moderate-income (LMI) homebuyers and how those behaviors may influence mortgage outcomes. This paper presents new ethnographic data about how LMI first-time homebuyers access information and how that information shapes their mortgage shopping in three phases of the homebuying process....
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Shared Equity Housing: A Review of Existing Literature
November 21, 2019
This literature review provides an overview of existing literature on the topic of shared equity housing programs in the U.S. It seeks to identify common elements, benefits, and drawbacks of four shared equity housing models: community land trusts, limited-equity housing cooperatives, deed restriction programs, and resident-owned communities....
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Rice University
Criminal Justice Contact, Homeownership, and Implications for the Black-White Wealth Gap
Monday, December 09, 2019
Prior research has demonstrated that racial disparities in incarceration contribute to the black-white homeownership gap. In Homeownership Experiences Following Criminal...
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Research Assistant
Chicago Development Highlights Collaborative Efforts to Preserve Housing and Develop Sustainable Communities
Monday, December 02, 2019
In her closing remarks at the recent Foundations for the Future of Housing Conference, Julia Stasch, past president of the...
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Senior Industry Fellow
The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Has the Single Security Eliminated It for Good?
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
When I joined Freddie Mac as CEO in 2012, I knew that, despite it being a giant company with $2...
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Deputy Director
VIDEO: Innovative and Collaborative Approaches to Solving Housing Affordability
Monday, November 25, 2019
Innovative and collaborative approaches to the growing challenge of housing affordability were the focus of Housing + Innovation: Lessons from...
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Throughout the year, the Joint Center for Housing Studies reaches beyond the university to promote national discussion of important housing policy issues. In addition to on-campus seminars, lectures, and webcasts, we convene major conferences and symposia on topics of national importance in the housing field, bringing together housing practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from organizations and communities around the country. Fall 2019 events will be added to the calendar this summer.
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