Annual expenditures for improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes are projected to decrease this year and into the first quarter of 2025, but at a moderating rate, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA).
Considering rental affordability trends over the last 60 years shows how two periods, the 1970s and the Great Recession in the late 2000s, fueled the modern affordability crisis.
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Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households at a time when house value growth is outpacing income gains in markets across the country. This study features case studies of five organizations from the for-profit, nonprofit and public sectors that are leading efforts to expand the use of manufactured housing in markets where these homes have not been widely used.
Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across major American cities calling for returning control of urban government to the neighborhood level. Using New York City as a case study, this white paper shows how this new “neighborhood liberalism” reordered the priorities that urban liberals expected of their elected officials and, in so doing, remade American cities to a degree that scholars are only beginning to understand.
However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no consensus definition used in housing research.
