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W04-11: Access to decent and affordable housing has long been a cornerstone of efforts to expand social and economic opportunity for all Americans. One in three…

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…

W12-2: This paper focuses on four critical policy challenges in the area of housing finance that were developed with input from the What Works Collaborative during the…

W05-8: The rapid rise in home prices in countries around the world has focused new attention on the role that housing and housing wealth plays in enhancing the financial…

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…

During the past decade, the housing finance system contributed to a boom-and-bust cycle that triggered the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. A brief but…

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…

W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…