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
Housing Markets & Conditions Wild Frontiers of Healthy Housing Research: Microbes Among Us Sunday, September 21, 2014 Recently, the Joint Center has been researching what makes a healthy home. As Mariel Wolfson pointed... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability New Data Shows a Growing Wealth Divide in the U.S. Thursday, September 11, 2014 Last week, the Federal Reserve released its 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances , a triennial survey... By DANIEL MCCUE
Aging INTERACTIVE MAP: The U.S. Population Has Aged Significantly Over the Past Two Decades Wednesday, September 10, 2014 The older adult population has grown tremendously since the first of the baby boomers (born 1946-64)... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Aging Housing America’s Older Adults: New Report & Infographic Tuesday, September 2, 2014 This week, the Joint Center released its new report, Housing America’s Older Adults—Meeting the... By KERRY DONAHUE
Aging Older Homeowners Want to Age in Place but Aren’t Focused on Accessibility Thursday, August 21, 2014 With many baby boomers reaching retirement age this decade, a major shift in the age distribution of... By ABBE WILL
Affordability What is Affordable Housing & What Does it Mean to Preserve It? (Five New Case Studies) Thursday, August 14, 2014 Even people in the housing field are not always sure what affordable housing is, and what it means... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Affordability Selection, Matching, and the Rules of the Game: Landlords and the Geographic Sorting of Low-Income Renters Thursday, August 7, 2014 In recent years, federal housing policy has shifted toward a system that is increasingly reliant on... By EVA ROSEN
Homeownership New Book Identifies Lessons Learned from the Housing Crisis Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Though the national homeownership rate rose to its highest level ever in 2005, millions of Americans... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY
Affordability With More than 2 Million Units at Risk, How Can the U.S. Preserve its Affordable Rental Housing Stock? Thursday, July 31, 2014 As our most recent State of the Nation’s Housing report confirms, the renter affordability crisis... By IRENE LEW