The recent dramatic increase in the number of single-family detached rental homes, which is due in part to foreclosures of single-family homeowners and constrained lending…
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…
RR07-1: The nation faces many longstanding rental housing challenges. Chief among these concerns are widespread rental affordability problems, neighborhood decline, the…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…
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…
Rachel Bogardus Drew, Chris Herbert
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August 13, 2012
W12-4: The analysis presented in this paper tests for associations between views on homeownership and experiences with recent housing market distress. Using data from…
W14-3: While numerous studies have sought to identify determinants of individual decisions about owning and renting housing, very few have considered the role that…
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…
W15-2: Changing socio-demographic characteristics of young adult households (those with householders ages 25 to 34) are having an impact on their propensities for…
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…
