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While gentrification raises fears of displacement, it also offers some hope because the growth in higher-income households in previously poor areas can help to shore up city…

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

This report shows that the number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1…

RR07-3: At a congressional hearing in 1948, representative A.S. Mike Monroney argued that the construction of new, subsidized rental housing improves the surrounding…

W06-4: Metropolitan Boston, one of the nation’s largest urban areas, is in the midst of sweeping transformations. It is growing slowly in population but is sprawling…

In this paper, we look at the impact of two New York City homeownership programs on surrounding property values. Both of these programs—the Nehemiah Plan and the New Homes…

Record numbers of foreign-born individuals and households currently reside in the United States, substantially affecting housing demand. As of 1998, the 11 million immigrant-…

This paper addresses several basic questions regarding second homes: what is or should be counted as a second home; how many second homes exist in the United States; where…

W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…

W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…