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Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Community Land Trusts
April 2019
While there has been significant research on the formation and...
More affordable housing options encouraged under Oregon bill
Associated Press
Oregon hopes to build its way out of its housing...
Open House: Joint Center for Housing Studies
August 2019
Come learn more about the Joint Center for Housing Studies,...
More affordable housing options encouraged under Oregon bill
Associated Press
Oregon hopes to build its way out of its housing...
Former Freddie Mac CEO Donald Layton: Trump's Treasury says GSE reform has "mostly happened"
HousingWire
Donald Layton, who stepped down as the CEO of Freddie...
California Struggles to Sprawl in an Environmentally Responsible Way
Bloomberg Businessweek
A development 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles will provide...
Open House: Joint Center for Housing Studies
August 2019
Come learn more about the Joint Center for Housing Studies,...
The State of the Nation's Housing, 2019
September 2019
Although household growth is returning to a more normal pace,...
Aging in [a] Place Symposium: Planning, Design & Spatial Justice in Aging Societies
October 2019
The United States is an aging society where economic inequality...
Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Community Land Trusts
April 2019
While there has been significant research on the formation and...
The Economic Effects of Climate Change Adaptation Measures: Evidence from Miami-Dade County and New York City
May 2019
This research examines the economic impact of climate change adaptation...
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 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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GSE Reform: None or Mostly Done?
August 05, 2019
Over the past decade, Congress and most housing finance policy developers and commentators have overwhelmingly focused on reform of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) in terms of comprehensive reform, meaning major changes in the design and structure of the housing finance system, which would require legislation by Congress. But, Donald Layton argues, reform has been “mostly done” already, quietly and competently, during conservatorship....
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New Paper Shows Substantial Changes in the Profile of First-Time Homebuyers
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
First-time homebuyers increasingly include never-married households and newly-formed households, according to a new working paper I co-authored with Shannon Rieger...
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Senior Research Fellow
Eliminating Exclusionary Land Use Regulations Should Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
Monday, August 19, 2019
Like cicada swarms, presidential commissions and federal initiatives to eliminate local barriers to housing development have a certain temporal cadence....
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Senior Research Analyst
Small Consumer Segment Drives Majority of Remodeling
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Of the more than 77 million homeowners in the US, an estimated 22 million completed at least one home improvement...
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Senior Research Associate
Headlines from the 2019 State of the Nation’s Housing Report
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
In the course of preparing our annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, we identify several especially noteworthy trends and...
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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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