A Year for the Record Books: The State of the Nation’s Housing in Perspective Wednesday, July 9, 2025 It has been a record year for housing. Our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report highlights an eye-popping list of milestones that were set in 2024. Most relate to housing affordability or, more... By DANIEL MCCUE
Miscellaneous Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Like everyone else around the country and the world, staff at the Joint Center for Housing Studies... By CHRIS HERBERT
Affordability More for Less?: How Design and Construction Decisions Can (and Can’t) Address Multifamily Housing Costs Monday, March 16, 2020 How can developers, architects, and contractors address multifamily housing costs through design and... By HANNAH HOYT
Aging The Number of People Living Alone in Their 80s and 90s is Set to Soar Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Over the next 20 years, the number of people in their 80s and 90s living alone will dramatically... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY
Rental Housing Digging Deeper into the Story: The Widespread Implications of the Growth in High Income Renters on Low- and Middle-Income Renter Households Wednesday, March 4, 2020 One of the major stories highlighted in our new America’s Rental Housing report is the growth in... By DANIEL MCCUE
Neighborhood Change National Politics, Neighborly Politics: The Impact of Trump’s Election on a Detroit Community Monday, March 2, 2020 While some researchers have studied how historical community transformations and neighborhood... By SHARON CORNELISSEN
Housing Markets & Conditions The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Update Monday, February 24, 2020 Last fall, I wrote a blog post entitled “ The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Has the Single Security... By DON LAYTON
Demographics & Projections Losing Residents but Still Growing: How Migration and Population Change Affect Cities Thursday, February 20, 2020 When I present research on residential mobility and migration in the United States, people are often... By RIORDAN FROST
Rental Housing 10 Surprising Facts from America’s Rental Housing 2020 Tuesday, February 18, 2020 A few weeks after our research team has started digging into the data for a new report, we get... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions The GSEs and the Economic Cycle: Realistic Expectations Wednesday, February 12, 2020 “The GSEs should be fully buying mortgages at all times, regardless of the state of the economy or... By DON LAYTON
