Our 2022 Summer Fellows Will Tackle a Range of Housing-Related Projects and Problems Wednesday, May 18, 2022 With support from our Center, 28 graduate students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), and one undergraduate from Harvard College, will spend the... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Rental Housing Millions of Renters Fall Short of a Comfortable Standard of Living Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Pandemic-related income losses, rising housing costs, and inflation in the cost of basic necessities... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Affordability As Low-Cost Units Become Increasingly Scarce, Low- and Moderate-Income Renters Are Losing Access to Many Neighborhoods Tuesday, February 22, 2022 According to the Center’s recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2022, the loss of low... By DANIEL MCCUE
Rental Housing New Report Shows a Surging Rental Market, Starkly Divided by Race and Renter Incomes Friday, January 21, 2022 Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Aging Do Older Homeowners with Mortgages Cut Back on Health Spending? Monday, November 15, 2021 Between 1989 and 2016 the share of homeowners 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled, and... By SAMARA SCHECKLER
Neighborhood Change Inclusionary and Incentive Zoning in the Six New England States Thursday, November 4, 2021 Almost 200 localities in all six New England states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire... By DIXI WU
Affordability Designing a Nationwide Downpayment Assistance Program: Lessons from Five International Case Studies Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Downpayment assistance has, of late, received an increasing amount of attention among US... By BENJAMIN WARD
Affordability This Year, Half as Many Metro Areas Are Affordable to Low-Income Homebuyers as Last Year Thursday, October 14, 2021 Surging home prices have made it even more difficult for millions of renters to become homeowners... By RAHEEM HANIFA
Affordability Pandemic Highlights Disparities in High-Speed Internet Service Wednesday, September 8, 2021 One year before the pandemic began, almost one-fifth of households in the United States did not have... By RIORDAN FROST
Affordability Interactive Map Shows Geographic Variation in Pandemic Financial Pressures Wednesday, July 28, 2021 One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, 43 percent of all households reported they had lost employment... By SOPHIA WEDEEN
