Harnessing the Potential of Manufactured Housing to Expand Entry-Level Homeownership Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing offers significantly reduced construction costs compared to conventional site-built homes. As home... By CHADWICK REED
Housing Markets & Conditions 30th Anniversary State of the Nation’s Housing (VIDEO) Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Recently, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, we released our 30th anniversary State of... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Leveraging Resiliency to Promote Equity Monday, May 7, 2018 Faced with the increased threat of natural disasters, some community-based organizations are trying... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Housing Markets & Conditions The Fair Housing Act at 50 Thursday, April 12, 2018 Fair housing can and should be a centerpiece of efforts to expand economic opportunity, asserted Dr... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Housing Markets & Conditions Family Instability… It’s Not Just Mom and Dad Thursday, March 29, 2018 Children experience many changes in their households while they are growing up. But while we often... By KRISTIN PERKINS
Housing Markets & Conditions Local Responses to Global Climate Change Wednesday, March 14, 2018 From September’s destructive hurricanes to the devastating fires in California, recent natural... By JILL SCHMIDT
Housing Markets & Conditions Fifty Years After the Fair Housing Act was Passed to Combat Segregation, We are Still Struggling to Find the Will to Implement It Monday, February 12, 2018 In the third set of papers from the Joint Center’s A Shared Future symposium, published last week... By MOSES GATES
Demographics & Projections Taking it to the House: Our Most Popular Blogs of 2017 Wednesday, December 27, 2017 As we turn the calendar to 2018, we took a moment to look back at the past year to see what were the... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Housing Markets & Conditions New Report: Surge in the Supply of Higher-Cost Rental Housing is Slowing Amidst Persistent Affordability Challenges for Working-Class Households Thursday, December 14, 2017 A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Rebuilding from 2017’s Natural Disasters: When, For What, and How Much? Thursday, November 30, 2017 The bulk of repairs to homes damaged by this year’s record-setting disasters will not be done until... By KERMIT BAKER, ALEXANDER HERMANN