The process of buying and selling houses is complex and uncertain, with many opportunities in the market for improvement. Smart entrepreneurs and innovative companies around…
The system of sector housing investment and finance that has evolved in the United States has long had a powerful influence on the costs, type, and location of housing, given…
Digitalization alone is not the driving force behind the changes in housing and real estate. The driving force is innovation brought to the sector by the fresh approach of…
Jose L. García del Castillo y López
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November 22, 2022
Computational tools have been crucial in the advance of architectural design and production. Since the early 1960s, developments in Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing (CAD/…
This paper reflects upon the panel “How Is Digitalization Changing the Ways Housing Is Designed and Built?” held at the March 2022 symposium Bringing Digitalization Home.…
Ivan Rupnik, Ryan E. Smith, Tyler Schmetterer
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November 22, 2022
For much of the twentieth century, architects, builders, developers, economists, and policymakers have pursued the “dream of the factory-made house”. The hope was that the…
Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…
Gopal Ahluwalia, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton
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April 19, 2022
Although still fragmented, the homebuilding industry has undergone changes in recent years that have increased the share of production by larger builders. The top 100…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), earlier in May…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, has also been the conservator of the…