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
Remodeling Steady Gains in Remodeling Activity Moving into 2018 Thursday, July 20, 2017 Healthy and stable growth in home improvement and repair spending is anticipated for the remainder... By ABBE WILL
Affordability The Effect of Debt on Default and Consumption: Evidence from Housing Policy During the Great Recession Monday, July 17, 2017 What is the effect of mortgage debt reductions that reduce payments in the long-term but not in the... By PETER GANONG, PASCAL NOEL
Affordability The Rise of Poverty in Suburban and Outlying Areas Tuesday, July 11, 2017 A key takeaway from our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report is that poverty is both... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability Are Home Prices Really Above Their Pre-Recession Peak? Thursday, July 6, 2017 In 2016, national home prices not only rose for the fifth year in a row, they finally surpassed... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Neighborhood Change Making Collaboration Work: Four Lessons from Chicago CDFIs Thursday, June 29, 2017 Although many in the housing and community development field are excited by the idea of... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN, MATTHEW ARCK
Affordability Our Disappearing Supply of Low-Cost Rental Housing Tuesday, June 27, 2017 It’s not an illusion: low-cost rental housing in the US is disappearing. And our 2017 State of the... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Housing Markets & Conditions Wait… What? Ten Surprising Findings from the 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing Report Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Every year, when we release our State of the Nation’s Housing report, we’re asked some variation of... By DANIEL MCCUE
Housing Markets & Conditions Growing Demand and Tight Supply are Lifting Home Prices and Rents, Fueling Concerns about Housing Affordability Friday, June 16, 2017 A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market has, by many measures... By KERRY DONAHUE
Affordability Would More Coordination Between Service Providers Help Address Youth Homelessness in Greater Boston? Tuesday, June 13, 2017 On a January night in 2015, 180,760 youth and young adults experienced homelessness, according to... By DAVID LUBEROFF