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Research, trends, and perspective from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

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Housing Markets & Conditions

The Fair Housing Act at 50

Fair housing can and should be a centerpiece of efforts to expand economic opportunity, asserted Dr...

By DAVID LUBEROFF
Rental Housing

Have Incomes Kept Up with Rising Rents?

While renters’ median housing costs rose, in real terms, by 11 percent between 2001 and 2016, their...

By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

From September’s destructive hurricanes to the devastating fires in California, recent natural...

By JILL SCHMIDT