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
Rental Housing The Number of High-Income Renters Surged, Especially in the Nation’s Highest-Cost Markets Monday, February 26, 2018 High-income renters are a growing share of all rental households, particularly in the nation’s most... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Rental Housing Is Rent Growth Finally Slowing? Thursday, February 1, 2018 Rents rose faster than inflation in almost three-quarters of the nation’s major housing markets... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability Really?! Ten Surprising Findings from the America’s Rental Housing Report Monday, January 22, 2018 Following the release of our America’s Rental Housing report last month, one of the most common... By JONATHAN SPADER
Affordability Low-Cost Rental Housing Increasingly Difficult to Find Wednesday, January 3, 2018 While rental markets are cooling nationally, market conditions remain extremely tight at the low end... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
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
Housing Markets & Conditions New Report: Surge in the Supply of Higher-Cost Rental Housing is Slowing Amidst Persistent Affordability Challenges for Working-Class Households Thursday, December 14, 2017 A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to... By CHRIS HERBERT
Rental Housing Who Owns Rental Properties, and is it Changing? Friday, August 18, 2017 Institutional investors own a growing share of the nation’s 22.5 million rental properties and a... By HYOJUNG LEE
Affordability Our Disappearing Supply of Low-Cost Rental Housing Tuesday, June 27, 2017 It’s not an illusion: low-cost rental housing in the US is disappearing. And our 2017 State of the... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability Would More Coordination Between Service Providers Help Address Youth Homelessness in Greater Boston? Tuesday, June 13, 2017 On a January night in 2015, 180,760 youth and young adults experienced homelessness, according to... By DAVID LUBEROFF
