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Housing Markets & Conditions

Harnessing the Potential of Manufactured Housing to Expand Entry-Level Homeownership

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing...

By CHADWICK REED

Remodeling

Continued Easing of Remodeling Declines Expected into 2025

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Annual expenditures for improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes are projected to decrease...

By ABBE WILL

Rental Housing

Rental Housing Unaffordability: How Did We Get Here?

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

As we noted in our most recent report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, the number of cost-burdened...

By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI

Demographics & Projections

After Leading a Back to the City Movement, Many Millennials Moved to the Suburbs

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Many cities experienced an urban renaissance as millennials came of age in the 2000s and early 2010s...

By RIORDAN FROST, WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI

Neighborhood Change

Power to the Neighborhoods: NYC Growth Politics and the Origins of the Housing Crisis

Monday, March 11, 2024

Around 1970, an unprecedented movement emerged across American cities that favored redistributing...

By JACOB ANBINDER

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Aging

Older Adults with Moderate Income Cannot Afford the Dual Burden of Housing and Care

Thursday, March 7, 2024

In the US, millions of older adults struggle to afford both housing and the long-term care (LTC)...

By SAMARA SCHECKLER, PEYTON WHITNEY

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Affordability

What Has Zoning Reform Accomplished in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Monday, February 26, 2024

Our latest America’s Rental Housing report highlighted the first-of-its-kind 100 Percent Affordable...

By MAGDA MAAOUI

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Rental Housing

Rents Are Cooling, but Not Everywhere

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

In our recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, we noted that rental markets are...

By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI, SOPHIA WEDEEN

Affordability

Record Homelessness Amid Ongoing Affordability Crisis

Monday, February 12, 2024

Homelessness spiked 12 percent (71,000 people) in 2023, with more than 650,000 people unhoused, the...

By RIORDAN FROST

Housing Perspectives

Housing Cost Burdens Climb to Record Levels (Again) in 2023