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
Neighborhood Change Is Lead Exposure a Form of Housing Inequality? Thursday, January 2, 2020 The primary sources of contemporary lead exposure are chipping paint, water pipes, and lead... By ALIX WINTER, ROBERT SAMPSON
Miscellaneous What We’ve Been Reading (and Listening to) This Year Friday, December 27, 2019 In anticipation of the holiday break, which for those of us in the Northeast is a time of short... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Housing Markets & Conditions Treasury’s Long GSE Capital To-Do List Thursday, December 19, 2019 As the year ends, the momentum for the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Freddie Mac and... By DON LAYTON
Miscellaneous End of the Year Roundup: Our Most Popular Blogs of 2019 Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Rental supply challenges, cost burdens, and price-to-income ratios: our most popular blogs of 2019... By KERRY DONAHUE
Housing Markets & Conditions Politicization and the Flawed Narrative of Loose GSE Credit Thursday, December 12, 2019 Earlier this year, the viewpoint of political conservatives that the credit quality of the mortgages... By DON LAYTON
Homeownership Criminal Justice Contact, Homeownership, and Implications for the Black-White Wealth Gap Monday, December 9, 2019 Prior research has demonstrated that racial disparities in incarceration contribute to the black... By BRIELLE BRYAN
Neighborhood Change Chicago Development Highlights Collaborative Efforts to Preserve Housing and Develop Sustainable Communities Monday, December 2, 2019 In her closing remarks at the recent Foundations for the Future of Housing Conference, Julia Stasch... By SEAN VEAL
Housing Markets & Conditions The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Has the Single Security Eliminated It for Good? Wednesday, November 27, 2019 When I joined Freddie Mac as CEO in 2012, I knew that, despite it being a giant company with $2... By DON LAYTON
Affordability VIDEO: Innovative and Collaborative Approaches to Solving Housing Affordability Monday, November 25, 2019 Innovative and collaborative approaches to the growing challenge of housing affordability were the... By DAVID LUBEROFF