After many years of rapid expansion, national expenditures for home improvements and maintenance and repairs topped $325 billion in 2007 according to the Joint Center for…
As we turn the calendar to 2018, we took a moment to look back at the past year to see what were the most popular articles in our Housing Perspectives blog.
The top five…
Addressing homelessness, spurring urban revitalization, reforming housing finance, and encouraging equitable development are among the topics that will be discussed at our…
The home remodeling market in the US expanded by more than 50 percent since the end of the Great Recession, according to our new report, Improving America’s Housing 2019. The…
As the rise of companies like Zillow and Rocket Mortgage illustrate, big data and data analytics have significantly changed how people search for and finance housing. The…
With increasing concern about housing affordability, there has been growing interest in Community Land Trusts (CLTs), place-based non-profits that hold land in perpetuity on…
Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…
Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Daniel McCue
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January 30, 2019
The cities, towns, and neighborhoods that together make up greater Boston have changed significantly in the last few decades. Between 1990 and 2016, the region has become…
Donald Taylor-Patterson, David Luberoff
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March 22, 2018
How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the design of those projects? In particular, are the funding and approval…
W13-3: The approximately $300 billion a year private home remodeling and repair market comprises most of the investment for maintaining and improving the nation’s…
