Unease in the Housing Market Amid a Worsening Affordability Crisis Tuesday, June 24, 2025 This year, the US housing market is shrouded in uncertainty. High home prices and interest rates have pushed sales to their lowest level in 30 years; insurance premiums and property taxes are on the... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Single-Family Rentals Have Risen to Nearly a Third of Rental Housing Monday, October 5, 2015 According to the Census Bureau, the national homeownership rate dropped again in the second quarter... By RACHEL BOGARDUS DREW
Affordability Enterprise and JCHS Project Renter Burdens in 2025 Monday, September 21, 2015 Earlier today, Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies... By CHRIS HERBERT, ANDREW JAKABOVICS
Demographics & Projections Where Are All the Homes? Demographic Underpinnings of the Lack of For-Sale Inventory Friday, September 18, 2015 One of the challenges faced by housing markets has been a persistent lack of inventory of homes for... By DANIEL MCCUE
Affordability Housing Cost Burdens Reach Higher Up the Income Scale, But Remain Nearly Unavoidable at Lower Incomes Thursday, September 10, 2015 In conjunction with the release of our 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing Report, the Joint Center... By ELLEN MARYA
Housing Markets & Conditions How Much of the Damaged Housing Stock Was Rebuilt After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita? Thursday, September 3, 2015 Ten years ago, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created unprecedented damage in communities along the... By JONATHAN SPADER
Housing Markets & Conditions A City Revival? It Depends on Your Definitions Thursday, August 20, 2015 Every spring, the Census Bureau publishes estimates of the population as of the prior July 1st at... By RACHEL BOGARDUS DREW
Affordability Despite Declines in Homelessness, Family Homelessness Persists Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Since the 2010 release of Opening Doors, the first federal strategic plan to end and prevent... By IRENE LEW
Affordability New Multifamily Construction is Out of Reach for Most Renters Thursday, July 30, 2015 A major theme of the Joint Center’s 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing Report is the record growth... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Demographics & Projections For Housing Demographers It’s All About the Data – But Sometimes the Data Come Up Woefully Short Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Housing demographers are often frustrated by data that range from inconsistent to totally... By GEORGE MASNICK
