President Obama’s recent announcement that he will take executive action on immigration could be an important step in further supporting the sluggish housing recovery.…
As mentioned in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that it will lower costs of government mortgages by reducing the…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. Today’s post was written by Patricia McCoy, Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor, Boston College…
President Obama’s recent announcement that he will take executive action on immigration could be an important step in further supporting the sluggish housing recovery.…
In conversations about the declining homeownership rate in the U.S., some commentators have pointed to declines in the share of married people as an important contributing…
What makes a home healthy or unhealthy? As Mariel Wolfson illustrated in her recent blog, this question is a multifaceted one. Old hazards persist, including lead paint…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. Today’s post, written by Jeffrey Lubell, Director of Housing and Community Initiatives at Abt…
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, aggregate mortgage debt stood at $8.6 trillion in Q2 2014, down from its peak of $10.0 trillion in Q3 2008. Many have…
In a previous post, I described recent research about drivers of decisions to own homes, with emphasis on the role of behavioral factors. That research confirmed that there…
Though the national homeownership rate rose to its highest level ever in 2005, millions of Americans saw their hopes of building wealth through homeownership dashed in the…
