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Housing affordability has been a growing concern across the US over the past three decades. Indeed, between 1990 and 2017, the number of units renting for under $600…

Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…

W05-7: The paper uses data from a household survey in Beijing to explore the impact of China’s two primary homeownership-oriented housing policies: the Housing Provident…

This framing paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard…

The decade-long decline in the homeownership rate in the United States has generated substantial discussion over its future path. In the face of continued uncertainty, this…

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

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

W01-8: Each year the federal government spends approximately $6 billion to rehabilitate the housing stock, which leverages a similar amount of spending from the private…

W02-9: This paper explores the use of public schools as tools for community and economic development. As major place-based infrastructure and an integral part of the…