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
Homeownership Homeownership Without the White Picket Fence? Hispanic Homeownership in the US Thursday, October 10, 2019 Hispanics are much less likely to be homeowners than non-Hispanic whites, and in a new working paper... By ROCIO SANCHEZ-MOYANO
Homeownership Exploring a Decade of Contract for Deed Sales in the Midwest Thursday, August 29, 2019 Contract for deed home sales, a once-notorious practice that seemingly faded into obscurity in the... By ANN CARPENTER, TAZ GEORGE, LISA NELSON
Homeownership New Paper Shows Substantial Changes in the Profile of First-Time Homebuyers Wednesday, August 21, 2019 First-time homebuyers increasingly include never-married households and newly-formed households... By JONATHAN SPADER
Homeownership Rebounds in Homeownership Have Not Reduced the Gap for Black Homeowners Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Although homeownership rates rose for all racial and ethnic groups in 2016-2018, rates for black... By SEAN VEAL, JONATHAN SPADER
Housing Markets & Conditions Meeting America’s Affordable Housing Needs Requires GSE Reform, and More Monday, July 8, 2019 Much of the writing that I will undertake in my fellowship year at the Joint Center for Housing... By MICHAEL STEGMAN
Housing Markets & Conditions New Fellows Don Layton and Michael Stegman to Focus on Housing Finance Reform Monday, July 1, 2019 Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies appoints a number of senior fellows who have made... By CHRIS HERBERT
Homeownership How Do Mortgage Refinances Affect Debt, Default, and Spending? Monday, May 20, 2019 In the wake of the Great Recession, US monetary policy focused in large measure on purchases of... By JOSHUA ABEL
Affordability Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Community Land Trusts Monday, April 22, 2019 With increasing concern about housing affordability, there has been growing interest in Community... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Homeownership VIDEO: Watch our Symposium on Housing Tenure and Financial Security Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Homeownership has long been a central pillar of financial security for American families. However... By JONATHAN SPADER