Can New Suburban Housing Make Urban Areas More Affordable? Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the same time, the vast majority... By VALENTINE GILBERT
Demographics & Projections Reconciling the Back-to-the-City Thesis with Sustained Suburban Growth Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Are cities growing faster than their suburbs? Unfortunately, there is little consensus among urban... By HYOJUNG LEE
Aging Do Rental Subsidies Provide Accessible Housing for Older Adults? Friday, October 5, 2018 Compared to older adults living in unassisted rental units, those living in assisted units are more... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Homeownership Tenure Transitions Are More Common Than We Think Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with... By KRISTIN PERKINS
Affordability Is There a Better Way to Measure Housing Affordability? Wednesday, September 26, 2018 When the Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates the extent of housing affordability problems, we... By CHRIS HERBERT, DANIEL MCCUE
Remodeling How Much Will Homeowners Spend to Rebuild & Repair After Hurricane Florence? Monday, September 24, 2018 Hurricane Florence was yet another reminder that natural disasters can inflict significant damage to... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Affordability Older Adults Increasingly Face Housing Affordability Challenges Friday, September 21, 2018 Due to both population growth and soaring housing costs, the number of adults age 65 and over... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY, WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Demographics & Projections Not just the Sunbelt: Millennials and Baby Boomers Increasingly Head West Tuesday, September 18, 2018 When Americans decide to pick up and move, over the past fifty years they most commonly have left... By RIORDAN FROST
Affordability Price-to-Income Ratios are Nearing Historic Highs Thursday, September 13, 2018 The typical sale price of an existing single-family home in 2017 was 4.2 times greater than the... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Remodeling Major Metro Remodeling Markets Projected to Heat Up Across the U.S. Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Annual growth in home improvement spending is expected to be widespread across the country’s largest... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE