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October 1, 2020

The New York Times

With Evictions Looming, Cities Revisit a Housing Experiment From the ’70s

“Once those moratoriums are lifted, landlords are going to expect that those back rent payments are made up, but the question is: How will they make those up?” asks Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 29, 2020

CNBC

The new retirement living: More baby boomers shun housing mega-developments

The number of households with people age 80 and over rose 71% from 4.4 million in 1990 to 7.5 million in 2016, according to Harvard’s “Housing America’s Older Adults” report. The report predicts that within the next 20 years, the number of households in this group will double.

September 29, 2020

Barron's

Even Seniors Who Are Good Savers Stand to Fall Short in Retirement

Older Americans are the group most likely to own a home, but 46% are carrying mortgage debt into retirement, up from 24% three decades ago, according to the NIRS report, which cites research from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 22, 2020

The Wall Street Journal

Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens to Widen Racial Homeownership Gap

“The opportunity for people to use this as a time to transition into buying is probably going to be less for Blacks. How great that difference is, it’s too early to say,” said Chris Herbert, managing director at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 21, 2020

NPR

The Government Is Protecting Renters, But Who Is Looking Out For The Landlords?

Small landlords, also known as single-family rentals, make up about 34% of the estimated 45 million renter households in America, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

September 14, 2020

Forbes

How Gen Z & Young Millennials Are Redefining Life Stages, Markets & Retirement For Everyone

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies reports a steady decline since the great recession in household formation for people ages 25 to 34 years old.

September 10, 2020

Boston.com

Unless more housing is built, the buyer struggle will continue, experts say

Chris Herbert, managing director for the Joint Center for Housing Studies, said the success of the Greater Boston economy keeps drawing higher-wage workers to the area, driving up demand while we’re simultaneously building far fewer houses than we did 30 years ago.

September 8, 2020

Marketplace

Remote workers pay cooling bills or sweat out summer heat at home

“There has been a transfer of burden from the commercial and industrial sectors to the residential sector,” said Riordan Frost, research analyst at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 1, 2020

Quartz

It’s time to prepare cities for people uprooted by climate change

On average, affordable housing stock (where rent is below $800) in the Rust Belt cities identified has fallen nearly 20% since 2011, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The national average is about 12%.

August 20, 2020

CityLab

Getting Old Needs a New Look

Researchers at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that more than a third of older people are cost-burdened when it comes to housing, an all-time high. Deep racial inequities around homeownership, income, and affordable housing access exacerbate these issues.

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