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 Furthering Fair Housing: It’s Not Too Late to Follow New Orleans’ Lead Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Although the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that state and... By CASHAUNA HILL
Neighborhood Change Collaborations by Design: CDFIs, Capital Absorption, and the Creation of Community Investment Systems Monday, March 5, 2018 Rebuilding disinvested communities takes more than money. Rather, as research done by the Initiative... By ERIN SHACKELFORD
Neighborhood Change Assessing Fair Housing: HUD’s Delay and the Dilemma this Poses for Jurisdictions Friday, March 2, 2018 How should the numerous jurisdictions poised to start their Assessments of Fair Housing (or those... By KATHERINE O'REGAN
Neighborhood Change What Would it Take for HUD to Meaningfully Increase Inclusion? Wednesday, February 28, 2018 What would it take to meet the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act’s requirement that federal entities use... By KATIE GOURLEY
Rental Housing The Number of High-Income Renters Surged, Especially in the Nation’s Highest-Cost Markets Monday, February 26, 2018 High-income renters are a growing share of all rental households, particularly in the nation’s most... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Homeownership Do State Income Taxes Affect Home Values? Thursday, February 22, 2018 State and local governments account for about 40 percent of all tax collections in the United States... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Homeownership How HOPE Creates Opportunity in Rural Areas Friday, February 16, 2018 The papers from the third panel of the Joint Center’s symposium on A Shared Future: Fostering... By ALAN BRANSON, JEREMY AVINS
Housing Markets & Conditions Fifty Years After the Fair Housing Act was Passed to Combat Segregation, We are Still Struggling to Find the Will to Implement It Monday, February 12, 2018 In the third set of papers from the Joint Center’s A Shared Future symposium, published last week... By MOSES GATES
Rental Housing Is Rent Growth Finally Slowing? Thursday, February 1, 2018 Rents rose faster than inflation in almost three-quarters of the nation’s major housing markets... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
