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…
W13-8: The recent housing bust precipitated a wave of mortgage defaults, with over seven percent of the owner-occupied housing stock experiencing a foreclosure.…
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…
Accessory Dwelling Units or ADUs – small, independent living units that are inside, attached to, or detached but on the same parcel as a primary residence – have the…
Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…
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…
Donald Taylor-Patterson, David Luberoff
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March 22, 2018
How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the design of those projects? In particular, are the funding and approval…
Eric Belsky, Nicholas DuBroff, Daniel McCue, Christina Harris, Shelagh McCartney, Jennifer Molinsky
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December 31, 2013
Tackling urban poverty and attending to its spatial manifestations is vitally important to national economic and social development. From a low of an estimated 28 percent of…
