Hyojung Lee, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Riordan Frost
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January 27, 2024
In the past decade, there has been a great deal of attention paid to and speculation about the residential mobility and location decisions of millennials. Academics and…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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January 25, 2024
Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. This all-time high of 22.4 million…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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November 30, 2023
Over the next ten years, the US population over the age of 75 will increase by 45 percent, from 17 million to nearly 25 million. The growth is widespread, across urban,…
Chris Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky, Samara Scheckler
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October 1, 2023
Adults 65 and older are the fastest growing age group of people experiencing homelessness, yet housing insecurity and homelessness is especially dangerous for them. This…
Seungbeom Kang, Jae Sik Jeon, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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July 4, 2023
Despite numerous studies and measures that quantify the extent of the shortage in affordable housing for low-income renter households, few studies address potential…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 21, 2023
US housing markets continue to cool as higher costs weigh on both homeowners and renters. On the for-sale side, home sales and construction levels have declined while rental…
Jennifer Molinsky, Anne Marie E. Brady, Bailey Hu
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June 5, 2023
Population aging and housing affordability challenges are driving an interest in alternative housing options in countries around the world. Older adults’ desires to age as…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 23, 2023
Sparked by pandemic-induced changes in household routines and use of living space, home improvement and repair spending soared to new heights in 2022, reaching an estimated $…