Can New Suburban Housing Make Urban Areas More Affordable? Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the same time, the vast majority... By VALENTINE GILBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions The US Housing Finance System: A Flawed Giant Tuesday, July 2, 2019 It is well understood that housing, broadly defined, generates a tremendous share of US GDP –... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions New Fellows Don Layton and Michael Stegman to Focus on Housing Finance Reform Monday, July 1, 2019 Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies appoints a number of senior fellows who have made... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions 2019 State of the Nation’s Housing Report Shows US Housing Supply Falls Far Short of What is Needed Monday, June 24, 2019 With the nation’s economy on sound footing and incomes on the rise, the number of people forming... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Public Housing Authorities in the Private Market Monday, May 6, 2019 For a variety of reasons, many public housing authorities (PHAs) have gone from being entirely... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions The Implications of Different Suburban Definitions Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Riverside is a low-density neighborhood in the city of Columbus, Ohio that has a distinctly suburban... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Homeownership How Many Homeowners May Have Missed the Window to Refinance? Friday, November 16, 2018 With interest rates ticking upward in 2018 and the prospect of further rate increases to come, the... By JONATHAN SPADER
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
Housing Markets & Conditions Our Shrinking Supply of Low-Cost Rental Units Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Between 1990 and 2016, the number of rental units in the U.S. priced below $800 per month (in real... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Housing Markets & Conditions Digging Deeper: Ten Striking Findings from Our Latest State of the Nation’s Housing Report Wednesday, August 8, 2018 This year marked 30 years since the Joint Center released its first report in 1988 and this year’s... By DANIEL MCCUE
