After many years of rapid expansion, national expenditures for home improvements and maintenance and repairs topped $325 billion in 2007 according to the Joint Center for…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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July 14, 2010
Even as the worst housing market correction in more than 60 years appeared to turn a corner in 2009, the fallout from sharply lower home prices and high unemployment…
W10-3: In spite of a diminishing supply of public resources, many nonprofit housing developers are expanding their roles and their portfolios to address an increasing…
W09-8: This paper examines the impact of publicly provided housing unit on student achievement in the context of low income households of Chile. It differs from previous…
W10-1: The negative impacts of concentrated foreclosures have been destabilizing communities across the country. Community development corporations (CDCs) and other…
Daniel Gubits, Jill Khadduri, Jennifer Turnham
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September 1, 2009
W09-7: This publication, supported by the MacArthur Foundation, is a detailed empirical study of the effects of housing vouchers on welfare families. Using a rich set of…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 22, 2009
Despite unprecedented federal efforts to jumpstart the economy and help homeowners keep up with their mortgage payments, home prices continued to fall and foreclosures…
W09-2: Real estate owned (REO) housing resulting from the recent foreclosure crisis threatens to destabilize low- and moderate-income neighborhoods across the country.…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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January 16, 2009
Although multifamily housing finance is not the source of the current credit crisis, it has been disrupted by it. Even though multifamily rental loan performance has held up…
W08-5: A principal finding from the Revisiting Rental Housing Symposium convened by the Joint Center for Housing Studies in November 2006 is that a great deal has been…
