Our 2023 Summer Fellows Will Tackle a Range of Housing-Related Projects and Problems Wednesday, May 31, 2023 With support from our Center, 13 students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) will spend the summer researching and working on a host of issues... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Affordability Inflation Pressures Are Stressing Renter Households Monday, April 17, 2023 More than half the nation’s renters—including two thirds of low-income renters—report that they have... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI, PEYTON WHITNEY
Affordability Practicing Community: Bernheimer Architecture’s Affordable Housing Thursday, April 13, 2023 Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, founding principal of Bernheimer Architecture (BA), opened this year’s... By CORINNA ANDERSON
Affordability Lower-Income Renters Have Less Residual Income than Ever Before Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Renter household incomes fell in the first two years of the pandemic as rents increased, leaving... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI, PEYTON WHITNEY
Rental Housing Rental Markets One Year After Our America’s Rental Housing Report Thursday, March 9, 2023 Last year when we released America’s Rental Housing 2022, the rental market was rebounding rapidly... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Rental Housing Number of Renters Burdened by Housing Costs Reached a Record High in 2021 Wednesday, February 1, 2023 In 2021, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of renters were cost-burdened... By PEYTON WHITNEY
Rental Housing Renter Financial Distress Has Been Concentrated in High-Poverty Neighborhoods and Communities of Color Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Renter households have been disproportionately harmed by the financial fallout of the COVID-19... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Rental Housing Linking Historic Transportation Investments with Housing Friday, January 20, 2023 When President Biden first proposed his Build Back Better legislation, it included $300 billion in... By RIORDAN FROST, YONAH FREEMARK
Housing Markets & Conditions Bringing Digitalization Home: Can Technology Help Address Housing-Related Challenges? Monday, October 24, 2022 Digitalization—the strategic use of technology to collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Rental Housing Record-Breaking Rent Growth in Markets in the South and West Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Rents in more than three-quarters of the nation’s 150 large markets increased rapidly in early 2022... By SOPHIA WEDEEN