Remodeling

Americans spend more than $500 billion a year on residential renovations and repairs. For over two decades, our Remodeling Futures Program has studied trends in the remodeling industry, including changes in the types and costs of projects that homeowners undertake, such as the growing interest in energy-efficient products, healthy homes, and “smart home” technologies. The program issues a biennial Improving America’s Housing report, a quarterly Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA), and other publications.

LEADING INDICATOR OF REMODELING ACTIVITY

The Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity provides a short-term outlook of national home improvement and repair spending to owner-occupied homes.

Cover of the paper "Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for life-cycle carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits"

Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for Life-Cycle Carbon and the Time Value of Carbon in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Residential Retrofits

September 27, 2022

Allison Hyatt

House Committee on Economic Disparity & Fairness in Growth

Connecting Americans to Prosperity: How Infrastructure Can Become More Equitable

February 9, 2022

Carlos Martín

REMODELING FUTURES STEERING COMMITTEE

The Remodeling Futures Program of the Joint Center is a comprehensive study of the factors influencing the growth and changing characteristics of housing renovation and repair activity in the United States.

Metro Area Home Improvement Projections 2022

Residential Remodeling in Top Metros to Accelerate in 2022

February 24, 2022

Expenditures for improvements to the owner-occupied housing stock are expected to increase at a faster pace in most of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas this year...