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I recently retired as Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, a position that I have been extremely fortunate to hold since its…

The magnitude of the housing bust that began in the middle of the past decade is well documented, with a 75 percent plunge in housing starts, 45 percent decline in existing…

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…

HBTL-08: Public policies at the federal, state, and local levels have espoused to support homeowners and homeownership for decades. Yet, low-income people continue to…

W12-7: The field of community development is at an inflection point, poised to achieve scale, impact, and integration of the many lessons learned over the past…

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

Much of homeownership research and policy focuses on financial or information barriers that might frustrate low-income renter households from buying a home. Given existing…

W98-5: Although the federal government provides tax incentives for homeownership, current tax provisions provide few incentives for lower-income families to buy a home…

W06-6: In 1994, the U.S. White House convened various stakeholders to establish a set of “National Construction Goals” recognizing that the residential building industry…

W04-3: The past several years have seen dramatic changes in the distribution of residential building products, particularly as it relates to dealers serving homebuilders…