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…
Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Daniel McCue
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January 30, 2019
The cities, towns, and neighborhoods that together make up greater Boston have changed significantly in the last few decades. Between 1990 and 2016, the region has become…
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…
As we turn the calendar to 2018, we took a moment to look back at the past year to see what were the most popular articles in our Housing Perspectives blog.
The top five…
Addressing homelessness, spurring urban revitalization, reforming housing finance, and encouraging equitable development are among the topics that will be discussed at our…
As the rise of companies like Zillow and Rocket Mortgage illustrate, big data and data analytics have significantly changed how people search for and finance housing. The…
With increasing concern about housing affordability, there has been growing interest in Community Land Trusts (CLTs), place-based non-profits that hold land in perpetuity on…
On March 15, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) issued a press release titled “Toomey Outlines Housing Finance Reform Principles” with the subtitle “Signals willingness to work with…
We are in the midst of a war between the government, companies, and not-for-profit organizations against the sharp economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. As a…
Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…