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…
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…
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…
Jonathan Spader, Jenny Schuetz, Alvaro Cortes
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August 28, 2015
The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical interest to urban economists and sociologists, as well as…
W15-3: This paper aims to make recommendations for the design of nonprofit-based programs for the replacement of older, substandard manufactured housing. It begins with…
W15-1: This study examines trajectories of foreclosed properties in areas severely impacted by the foreclosure crisis and their association with local crime and disorder…
W14-12: Gentrification has become the sticking point for many urban revitalization efforts – the specter which hangs over the efforts of community organizations, the…
W14-11: This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars…