Our 2022 Summer Fellows Will Tackle a Range of Housing-Related Projects and Problems Wednesday, May 18, 2022 With support from our Center, 28 graduate students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), and one undergraduate from Harvard College, will spend the... By DAVID LUBEROFF
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
Homeownership Affordability Challenges for Low-Income Homeowners Have Intensified During the Pandemic Tuesday, November 24, 2020 The newly released American Community Survey (ACS) shows a continued decrease in cost burdens in... By RAHEEM HANIFA
Homeownership Buyer Beware: A Cautionary Note on the Most Recent Homeownership Data from HVS Monday, August 10, 2020 The Census Bureau released its Q2 2020 Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) estimates on July 28. Housing... By DANIEL MCCUE
Homeownership Mortgage Default & Foreclosure in the Last Financial Crisis: HUD/FHA Policies and Innovative State and Local Initiatives Tuesday, June 30, 2020 A new series of Issue Briefs authored by Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center... By ERIN GRAVES, CHRIS HERBERT