Despite the private for-profit sector's importance in affordable housing development, there has been relatively little research on the sector. This working paper explores one…
The recent dramatic increase in the number of single-family detached rental homes, which is due in part to foreclosures of single-family homeowners and constrained lending…
Eric Belsky, Rachel Bogardus Drew, Daniel McCue
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November 1, 2007
W07-7: This paper examines the challenges of projecting the long-run sustainable demand for new residential construction and presents a range of estimates for the likely…
RR07-12: The strengths and weaknesses of nonprofit organizations in developing and owning subsidized rental housing are examined. In the course of this study, a number…
RR07-1: The nation faces many longstanding rental housing challenges. Chief among these concerns are widespread rental affordability problems, neighborhood decline, the…
For decades, real estate and housing professionals have thought of the typical home buyer as a married couple, with or without children, either purchasing their first home or…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…
Alexander von Hoffman, Eric Belsky, James DeNormandie, Rachel G. Bratt
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June 1, 2004
W04-5: This paper was prepared to provide background information for a conference sponsored by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation entitled The Vitality of America…
W02-8: In October 1996, at nearly the mid-point of President Bill Clinton’s term in office, a lead article in The New York Times Magazine heralded: “The Year That…
In 2001, there were over 5.7 million foreign-born1 homeowners living in the United States, with $1.2 trillion in aggregate house value and $876 billion in home equity. More…