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
Affordability Fiduciary Landlords: Life Insurers and Large-Scale Housing in New York City Tuesday, April 25, 2017 For a brief window between the late 1930s and the late 1940s, life insurance companies built... By ADAM TANAKA
Affordability What Can We Learn from Attempts to Reduce the Cost of Affordable Housing? Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Midwestern CDCs trying to build affordable homes that do not require development subsidies have... By SAM LATRONICA
Homeownership When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism Tuesday, February 7, 2017 In theory, renters and homeowners disagree about proposals to build new housing in their communities... By MICHAEL HANKINSON
Affordability Metro Data on Rental Cost Burdens Show Uneven Improvement Friday, September 23, 2016 The national trend in cost burdens is reflected across most metropolitan areas of the US. Looking at... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Affordability New Data Shows US Renter Cost Burdens Easing, But Still Elevated Thursday, September 22, 2016 The number of renters paying 30 percent or more of their income on housing decreased in 2015 by 240... By DANIEL MCCUE
Rental Housing How Do US Renters Fare Compared to Those Around the World? Wednesday, August 31, 2016 The Joint Center’s biennial America’s Rental Housing reports examine the rental housing market in... By MICHAEL CARLINER
Affordability State and Local Governments Take Action to Promote Affordable Housing Monday, August 22, 2016 Home prices are rising, rents are up, and units available for rent or sale are few and far between... By DANIEL MCCUE
Affordability Addressing the Housing Insecurity of Low-Income Renters Wednesday, July 13, 2016 As our recently released 2016 State of the Nation’s Housing report highlights, rental housing... By IRENE LEW
Affordability Are Renter Worst Case Housing Needs Easing? Thursday, June 2, 2016 Every two years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issues its Worst Case Housing... By ELLEN MARYA