Search

On September 28, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, reported its monthly index of house…

W09-4: This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years to show that houses sold after foreclosure, or close in time to…

The homeownership rate – currently around 65 percent, a level first reached half a century ago – is broadly regarded by policymakers as a core measure of whether the US…

Observing how creative practitioners have addressed the knotty problems involved in providing good homes to people who otherwise could not afford them is one of the great…

This brief describes five novel and replicable programs that are providing housing for low- and moderate-income Americans. These programs were created by collaborations of…

 A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades. Starting in the 1960s, the United…

W14-5: This case study is one of a series of five investigations of projects conducted by nonprofit organizations to preserve affordable rental housing in the United…

W14-7: This case study is one of a series of five investigations of projects conducted by nonprofit organizations to preserve affordable rental housing in the United…

In recent years the skyrocketing housing prices in major cities in the United States have raised the specter of driving out people who cannot afford to pay the increasingly…

W14-8: This case study is one of a series of five investigations of projects conducted by nonprofit organizations to preserve affordable rental housing in the United…