W03-8: This paper explores the importance of housing wealth in three ways. First, it looks at housing wealth as a share of household net wealth. Figures from 2001 reveal…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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November 30, 2003
The dream of equal, fair, and expanded access to credit in low-income communities was never more within the nation’s grasp. Three decades ago credit for home mortgages and…
Zhu Xiao Di, Yi Yang, Xiaodong Liu
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November 30, 2003
W03-5: Housing is the cornerstone of household wealth, especially for low-income households. With the growth in the U.S. homeownership rate, housing wealth is important…
W03-7: This paper addresses a two-fold problem. First, some families are struggling to sustain their home ownership, yet market responses are inadequate. Second,…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 1, 2003
Despite the 2001 recession and weak ensuing recovery, by most measures 2002 was the strongest year for housing on record. Residential investment, home sales, homeownership…
W03-3: Through a longitudinal survival analysis, this paper provides the first look into the long-term process of nest leaving, which is a pre-condition for natural…
W03-2: This report summarizes the findings of a Joint Center for Housing Studies survey of the use and performance of Essential Function Bonds. The report was sponsored…
William Apgar, Allegra Calder, J. Michael Collins, Mark Duda
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November 30, 2002
W02-11: This paper explores advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing for those entities whose mission is community development and asset building. Several…
W02-7: Modern project agreements have their roots in construction developments in World War II, and they emerged in the post-war era at atomic energy and space and…
W02-10: This paper examines the rationale for mixed-income approaches to affordable housing development, as well as the record of such developments in meeting their…
