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July 28, 2023

Better Homes & Gardens

50% of People Say They’ll Spend Less on Home Improvement Projects This Year

According to a report from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, home renovation and maintenance spending grew by 16% in 2022, but its growth is now slowing—2023 is only seeing 2.6% growth.

July 27, 2023

Governing

Why We Need More Public Investment in Home Repairs

According to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the median age of owner-occupied homes in the United States was 41 years in 2021.

July 25, 2023

Dwell

How Feasible Is It to Turn Office Buildings Into Apartments?

The U.S. housing crisis continues on, despite high rates of new, multifamily construction, reads a recent report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

July 21, 2023

The New York Times

Who Will Stand Up for Renters? Their Elected Representatives, Who Also Rent.

“As cost burdens show up in places where we don’t expect it, there seems to be more political momentum around addressing these problems,” said Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, senior research associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

July 20, 2023

NPR

Shocked by those extra monthly apartment fees? 3 big rental sites plan to reveal them

A record 21.6 million U.S. households are rent-burdened, spending more than 30% of their income on rent.

July 14, 2023

CNN

Renters are being hit harder by inflation than homeowners

Nearly half of renters — an estimated 49% — are cost burdened, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

July 14, 2023

CNN

The US is short on homes. Here’s how builders are still offering the American Dream

Homeownership remains one of the the largest wealth generators in the United States, according to a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, and lack of funds for a down payment is often the greatest barrier to buying a home.

July 13, 2023

Los Angeles Times

Rent in this California city exceeded San Francisco’s for the first time. Here’s how much it costs per month

Rent in California is becoming increasingly difficult to afford, and low-rent units are harder to find. Sophia Wedeen, a research analyst at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, wrote in a blog post that the supply of rental units in California that are priced below $1,400 per month has gone down between 2011 and 2021.

July 13, 2023

Vice

U.S. Building More Apartments Than It Has In Decades, But Not For the Poor: Report

According to Sophia Wedeen, a research analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, some of the problems laid out in the report can be remedied with subsidies like housing vouchers. “Housing assistance is really effective and wonderful for the households who get it, and obviously, there's not nearly enough funding,” Wedeen said in an interview with Motherboard.

July 10, 2023

Los Angeles Times

You don’t need this report to know California’s housing market is grim, but here you go

A new Harvard study confirms what most Californians can plainly see: housing is getting increasingly unaffordable in the Golden State, despite more people leaving. In their 2023 State of the Nation’s Housing report, researchers with Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies note that the market for both for-sale and rental houses has cooled, though homeowners and renters face costs above pre-pandemic levels.

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