Mariel Wolfson, Elizabeth La Jeunesse
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March 25, 2016
Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…
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…
Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC – Multifamily housing construction has accelerated to its fastest pace in nearly 30 years but has still not been sufficient to meet surging…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 9, 2015
Rental housing is home to a growing share of the nation’s increasingly diverse households, but even with the strong rebound in multifamily construction, tight rental markets…
CAMBRIDGE, MA. – The number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1 million by…
Allison Charette, Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics, Ellen Marya, Daniel McCue
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September 21, 2015
This report shows that the number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1…
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…
W14-11: This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars…
W14-8: This case study is one of a series of five investigations of projects conducted by nonprofit organizations to preserve affordable rental housing in the United…
W14-7: This case study is one of a series of five investigations of projects conducted by nonprofit organizations to preserve affordable rental housing in the United…