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…
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…
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…
W15-4: The dramatic aging of the U.S. population in coming decades is expected to have important implications for the home remodeling industry. Of the over 25 million…
W08-6: This paper assesses the cyclical nature of the remodeling industry between 1987 and 2007, and how remodeling cycles relate to cycles in the homebuilding industry…
George Galster, Jackie Cutsinger, Ron Malega
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March 1, 2007
RR07-4: We investigate theoretically and empirically two interrelated potential consequences of the spatial concentration of poverty: negative externalities to proximate…
W01-12: This paper examines social entrepreneurship from a community-development perspective. The target audience is community-development nonprofit organizations. The…