Advanced Age Can Increase Risk of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Monday, May 6, 2024 With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors unique to older adults. In... By SAMARA SCHECKLER
Aging New Report: Aging Homeowners Drive Growth in Remodeling as Millennials Begin to Gain Footing Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Homeowner spending on remodeling is expected to see healthy growth through 2025, according to... By KERRY DONAHUE
Affordability What Can We Learn from Attempts to Reduce the Cost of Affordable Housing? Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Midwestern CDCs trying to build affordable homes that do not require development subsidies have... By SAM LATRONICA
Demographics & Projections Defining the Generations Redux Thursday, February 16, 2017 How should we define the baby boom, Generation X, and the millennial generation? In a Joint Center... By GEORGE MASNICK
Homeownership When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism Tuesday, February 7, 2017 In theory, renters and homeowners disagree about proposals to build new housing in their communities... By MICHAEL HANKINSON
Neighborhood Change How are Community Development Organizations Helping Build Healthy Places? Tuesday, January 31, 2017 The great majority of America’s high-performing community development organizations (CDOs) are... By ALINA SCHNAKE-MAHL
Aging Four Challenges to Aging in Place Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Within 20 years, one in five Americans—almost 80 million people—will be older than 65 and, surveys... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY
Remodeling New Benchmark Data Modestly Lowers Remodeling Market Size Projections Thursday, January 19, 2017 The Joint Center’s Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) provides a short-term outlook of... By ABBE WILL
Homeownership The Case for Allowing Tenants and Owners to Remain in Their Homes Post-Foreclosure Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Although federal guidelines allow foreclosed homes to be sold with occupants, in a recently... By RACHEL G. BRATT
Demographics & Projections Homeownership Rates for Children of Immigrants—Age Matters Friday, January 6, 2017 Analyses of data used in a recent Census Bureau report show that homeownership rates for younger... By GEORGE MASNICK