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 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
Affordability The Effect of Debt on Default and Consumption: Evidence from Housing Policy During the Great Recession Monday, July 17, 2017 What is the effect of mortgage debt reductions that reduce payments in the long-term but not in the... By PETER GANONG, PASCAL NOEL
Affordability The Rise of Poverty in Suburban and Outlying Areas Tuesday, July 11, 2017 A key takeaway from our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report is that poverty is both... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability Are Home Prices Really Above Their Pre-Recession Peak? Thursday, July 6, 2017 In 2016, national home prices not only rose for the fifth year in a row, they finally surpassed... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
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
Housing Markets & Conditions Growing Demand and Tight Supply are Lifting Home Prices and Rents, Fueling Concerns about Housing Affordability Friday, June 16, 2017 A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market has, by many measures... By KERRY DONAHUE
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
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