Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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February 7, 2024
However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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November 19, 2020
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic, a powerful movement for racial justice, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to bring the nation’s longstanding…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Bernadette Hanlon, Shannon Rieger
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April 3, 2020
Scholars conducting empirical research on U.S. suburbs must develop their own definition of suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 25, 2019
Although household growth is returning to a more normal pace, this year's State of the Nation's Housing report shows that housing production still falls short of what is…
Decreasing federal resources since the 1980s, policy devolution to the local level, and expansion of market-based approaches for affordable housing delivery have resulted in…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 22, 2016
With household growth finally picking up, housing should help boost the economy. Although homeownership rates are still falling, the bottom may be in sight as the lingering…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 24, 2015
The US housing recovery lost momentum in 2014 as homeownership rates continued to fall, single-family construction remained near historic lows, and existing home sales cooled…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 26, 2014
With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But when interest rates notched up at mid-year, momentum…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 26, 2013
The long-awaited housing recovery finally took hold in 2012, heralded by rising home prices and further rental market tightening. While still at historically low levels,…
W13-2: Investing in single-family homes is not a new business. However, the magnitude of homes flowing through foreclosure and into investor ownership since 2007 in many…