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This working paper compares rental housing in 12 countries in Europe and North America, using individual records from household surveys. Differences in housing…

 A history of affordable housing policy in the United States, and efforts to preserve affordable housing units in recent decades. Starting in the 1960s, the United…

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…

With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But when interest rates notched up at mid-year, momentum…

HBTL-08: Public policies at the federal, state, and local levels have espoused to support homeowners and homeownership for decades. Yet, low-income people continue to…

HBTL-01: From 2007 through 2011, the United States housing market suffered from a severe imbalance in supply and demand. On the supply side, there were too many homes…

During the past decade, the housing finance system contributed to a boom-and-bust cycle that triggered the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. A brief but…

W12-5: History offers valuable lessons to policy makers. Among other lessons, it teaches us the reasons that the government adopted the programs that constitute the…

Despite record-high vacancy rates and falling rents in some areas, the Great Recession did little to halt the long-term erosion of rental housing affordability. Indeed,…