Kristin Perkins, Shannon Rieger, Jonathan Spader, Chris Herbert
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October 21, 2019
Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Shannon Rieger
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February 20, 2019
After the 2018 midterm elections, many reports noted that Democrats gained House seats by winning suburban voters. Some journalists broke down the analysis further and…
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger, Jennifer Molinsky
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November 16, 2017
This framing paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard…
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger
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September 19, 2017
Residential segregation by race and ethnicity is a longstanding challenge in the United States, with the racial and economic geography of communities throughout the nation…
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…