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June 6, 2011
With employment growth strengthening, consumer spending up, and rental markets tightening, some of the ingredients for a housing recovery were taking shape in early 2011. Yet…
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December 1, 2010
This paper synthesizes the symposium proceedings, drawing upon the presentations and discussion at the event as the well as the papers themselves. Rather than present a…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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July 14, 2010
Even as the worst housing market correction in more than 60 years appeared to turn a corner in 2009, the fallout from sharply lower home prices and high unemployment…
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December 1, 2009
As a result of the credit market meltdown, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, the nation’s primary mechanism for producing and preserving affordable rental…
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June 22, 2009
Despite unprecedented federal efforts to jumpstart the economy and help homeowners keep up with their mortgage payments, home prices continued to fall and foreclosures…
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January 16, 2009
Although multifamily housing finance is not the source of the current credit crisis, it has been disrupted by it. Even though multifamily rental loan performance has held up…
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June 23, 2008
Housing markets contracted for a second straight year in 2007. The national median single-family home price fell in nominal terms for the first time in 40 years of…
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June 11, 2007
After setting records for home sales, single-family starts, and house price appreciation in 2005, housing markets abruptly reversed last year. In 2006, total home sales fell…
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April 1, 2007
W07-2: Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summitcommunicates essential findings from the symposium Revisiting Rental Housing: A National…
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June 13, 2006
The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…