Symposia & Other Projects

Bringing Digitalization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges?

Bringing Digitalization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges?

At this three-day symposium, leading scholars and experts discussed the nature and extent of technologically-driven changes in housing and whether these changes are likely to further (or hamper) efforts to address economic, social, and environmental challenges, such as housing affordability, discrimination, and climate change.

Covid-19 RECAPP

Covid-19 RECAPP

The Joint Center for Housing Studies and The Hastings Center are partnering to explore lessons learned during the pandemic about supporting older adults dwelling in the community.

PRO Neighborhoods

PRO Neighborhoods

Partnerships for Raising Opportunity in Neighborhoods (PRO Neighborhoods) is a program of JPMorgan Chase & Co. to provide funds to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) that collaborate to help revitalize low- and moderate-income communities and aid their residents and small-business owners.

Symposium on Housing Tenure and Financial Security

Symposium on Housing Tenure and Financial Security

In March 2019, Fannie Mae and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies hosted symposium that examined the evolving relationship between housing tenure choice, financial security, and residential stability.

Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon

Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon

A three-day symposium held at Harvard University from September 20-22, 2018 that challenged participants to discuss the range of perceptions and systemic changes needed to re-imagine integrative urban and social landscapes, as well as the labor and land markets that most often underpin the formation of slums. Over three days, the symposium sought to advance new policy, financial, design, and educational tools that could both improve existing slums and generate alternatives to future ones.

A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality

A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality

A national symposium that examined how patterns of residential segregation by income and race in the United States are changing and the consequences of residential segregation for individuals and society, and sought to identify the most promising strategies for fostering more inclusive communities in the years to come.