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
Demographics & Projections Fostering Inclusion: Whose Problem? Which Problem? Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Asking “what would it take”—about housing segregation or any other challenge— assumes, on some level... By XAVIER DE SOUZA BRIGGS
Neighborhood Change Rationales for (and Challenges to) Addressing Residential Segregation Monday, November 27, 2017 The consequences of racial segregation, the rationales for public policies to address those... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Demographics & Projections A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality Thursday, November 16, 2017 Almost 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, what would it take to meaningfully reduce... By JONATHAN SPADER, SHANNON RIEGER
Neighborhood Change CDFI Collaboration Enables New Lending to Nonprofit Community Organizations in Minneapolis and Cincinnati Monday, October 23, 2017 In the United States, nonprofit organizations provide a wide range of vital services to low-income... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Housing Markets & Conditions The Negative (and Positive) Spillovers of Concentrated Foreclosure Activity in New York City Monday, October 2, 2017 Foreclosures have negative effects not only for the people who lose their homes, but also for the... By KRISTIN PERKINS
Neighborhood Change Successful Collaboration in Community Development: Easier Said Than Done Thursday, September 28, 2017 What are the keys to successful collaborations of nonprofit housing organizations? A remarkable... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Neighborhood Change Are Integrated Neighborhoods Becoming More Common in the United States? Tuesday, September 19, 2017 The share of the population living in racially and ethnically integrated neighborhoods in the US has... By JONATHAN SPADER, SHANNON RIEGER
Neighborhood Change Managing Rapid Urbanization: Lessons from Mongolia Friday, August 25, 2017 The capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, provides a useful lens for understanding tensions that... By DAVID LUBEROFF
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