Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2006
The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 8, 2006
In any given year, some 34 million US households make their homes in rental housing. Like the general population, renters are highly diverse in demographic and income terms,…
W05-12: Unmet demand for affordable rental housing in most U.S. housing markets represents an opportunity for nonprofit organizations. Despite the potential benefits…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2005
House prices, residential investment, and home sales all set records again in 2004. But higher short-term interest rates and the strongest one-year price appreciation since…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…
W04-11: Access to decent and affordable housing has long been a cornerstone of efforts to expand social and economic opportunity for all Americans. One in three…
This research examines how nonprofit owners of affordable multifamily rental housing choose their approach to property management. It draws on existing literature on property…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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September 6, 2004
Despite job losses in the rest of the economy, housing had another record-breaking year in 2003. Home sales, single-family housing starts, residential fixed investment,…
W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…
