Identifying Decarbonization Strategies for Older Homes Tuesday, September 27, 2022 While energy consumption in new homes is decreasing thanks to stricter building codes, there is a dearth of performance standards for retrofits to older residences and those that do exist rarely... By ALLISON HYATT
Homeownership Homebuying Challenges in a Tight Housing Market: Perspectives from Brockton, Massachusetts Thursday, September 8, 2022 Home prices have risen dramatically over the past two years as growth in the number of households... By MADELINE RANALLI, SHARON CORNELISSEN
Homeownership This Year, Half as Many Black Households Can Afford a Home as Last Year Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Surging home prices and rising mortgage rates that have made it harder for all renters to become... By RAHEEM HANIFA
Homeownership Across the Nation, Rising Prices and Increased Interest Rates Limit Access to Homeownership Wednesday, August 10, 2022 The combined increases in home prices and mortgage interest rates over the past year have made... By DANIEL MCCUE
Homeownership What It Will Take to Sustainably Increase the Homeownership Rate? Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The homeownership rate – currently around 65 percent, a level first reached half a century ago – is... By DON LAYTON
Affordability Designing a Nationwide Downpayment Assistance Program: Lessons from Five International Case Studies Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Downpayment assistance has, of late, received an increasing amount of attention among US... By BENJAMIN WARD
Homeownership Single-family Zoning: Can History be Reversed? Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Single-family zoning has a target on its back. Long condemned for creating suburban sprawl and... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Homeownership Learning from the History of the Homeownership Rate Thursday, August 19, 2021 Among the thousands of statistics that the government produces to describe the country’s economic... By DON LAYTON
Homeownership New Data Suggest a Modest Increase in Homeownership and Household Growth Over the Past Year Wednesday, February 24, 2021 The Census Bureau’s Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) is widely used to track trends in US homeownership... By DANIEL MCCUE
Homeownership High-Income Black Homeowners Receive Higher Interest Rates than Low-Income White Homeowners Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Black homeowners not only have primary mortgages with higher interest rates than white homeowners... By RAHEEM HANIFA
