Continued Gains Projected for Remodeling Amid Economic Uncertainty Thursday, April 17, 2025 Annual expenditures for improvements and maintenance to owner-occupied homes are expected to grow modestly through 2026, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) . The... By CARLOS MARTÍN
Neighborhood Change Achieving the Promise of Equitable Development Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Across the country, planners and community activists are touting the new concept of “equitable... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Neighborhood Change How the Community Reinvestment Act Helps Facilitate Small Business Lending Monday, March 4, 2019 The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has helped spur small business lending in underserved... By HYOJUNG LEE
Neighborhood Change Are the Suburbs Losing Status? Monday, February 4, 2019 The traditional image of suburbs in the United States is one of middle-class, white, family... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Affordability New Interactive Tool Shows Two Decades of Social & Economic Change in Greater Boston Wednesday, January 30, 2019 A new interactive mapping tool showing the dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes that... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Neighborhood Change The Impact of the PRO Neighborhoods Program on Underserved Communities Monday, December 3, 2018 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that received grants from JPMorgan Chase & Co... By MATTHEW ARCK
Housing Markets & Conditions New Book Asks: What It Would Take to Foster Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality? Monday, October 22, 2018 More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, what would it take to meaningfully... By JONATHAN SPADER
Demographics & Projections Reconciling the Back-to-the-City Thesis with Sustained Suburban Growth Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Are cities growing faster than their suburbs? Unfortunately, there is little consensus among urban... By HYOJUNG LEE
Demographics & Projections Not just the Sunbelt: Millennials and Baby Boomers Increasingly Head West Tuesday, September 18, 2018 When Americans decide to pick up and move, over the past fifty years they most commonly have left... By RIORDAN FROST
Neighborhood Change Funders and the Challenge of CDFI Collaboration Thursday, August 16, 2018 In studying the ability of places to attract and deploy capital in support of low and moderate... By DAVID WOOD