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RR07-13: The effect of local land use regulations on housing markets has been the subject of extensive research and discussion among both urban economists and…

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…

This piece is the first in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a report…

This piece is the second in a four-part series on innovations in design and construction co-published with The Brookings Institution. It summarizes findings from a report…

While local governments, land use and housing officials, and affordable housing providers and advocates are scrambling to find effective ways to counter concerns about…

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…

The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical interest to urban economists and sociologists, as well as…

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…