W13-10: The Las Vegas case study focused on four zip codes in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area representing low to middle-level housing market subareas (the lower three…
RR07-15: There are 18 million units in one to four unit rental housing properties in the United States, making up half of the nation’s rental housing stock, yet this…
W04-4: Since 1998 the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, through its Remodeling Activity Indicator (RAI), has been releasing quarterly estimates of…
Household’s net-worth increase at the end of the 1990’s had an effect on home remodeling financing. Using the 2001 Consumer Practices Survey (CoPS) this paper analyzes the…
This paper is divided in two sections. The first part describes the two-step allocation process, including the MLP model estimation for missing doers and the description of…
Home improvement projects have a significant impact on the housing stock, affecting housing values and improving the standard of living. Also, the home improvement industry…