Can New Suburban Housing Make Urban Areas More Affordable? Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the same time, the vast majority... By VALENTINE GILBERT
Demographics & Projections How Many Young Homebuyers Get Support from Their Parents and How Much of a Difference Does It Make? Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Rising house prices, increased interest rates, stricter underwriting standards , and significant... By HYOJUNG LEE
Homeownership What Accounts for Recent Growth in Homeowner Households? Monday, November 26, 2018 In 2017, the US added more homeowners than any year since at least 2005, when the American Community... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Homeownership How Many Homeowners May Have Missed the Window to Refinance? Friday, November 16, 2018 With interest rates ticking upward in 2018 and the prospect of further rate increases to come, the... By JONATHAN SPADER
Homeownership Tenure Transitions Are More Common Than We Think Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with... By KRISTIN PERKINS
Homeownership Supporting Homeowners in a High-Cost, High-Opportunity City Thursday, May 3, 2018 New York City is an increasingly expensive place to live, and housing prices are dramatically... By CHRISTIE PEALE
Homeownership Do State Income Taxes Affect Home Values? Thursday, February 22, 2018 State and local governments account for about 40 percent of all tax collections in the United States... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Homeownership How HOPE Creates Opportunity in Rural Areas Friday, February 16, 2018 The papers from the third panel of the Joint Center’s symposium on A Shared Future: Fostering... By ALAN BRANSON, JEREMY AVINS
Homeownership How Housing Counseling Creates More Neighborhood Choice for Buyers Thursday, January 11, 2018 The US housing system simultaneously is one of the most efficient markets in the world and one of... By MARIETTA RODRIGUEZ
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