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Boston.com

Harvard report shows inequalities persist in housing industry

The housing market may be hotter than ever, but not everyone is reaping the benefits. A report Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released on June 16 found that inequalities that existed before the pandemic are persisting and policymakers need to take action to ensure those affected don’t fall even farther behind.

The New York Times

The US Averted One Housing Crisis, but Another Is in the Wings

“Millions of households were financially unscathed coming out of the pandemic,” said Alexander Hermann, senior research analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies. “But the pandemic has left millions of others struggling to make their housing payments, especially lower-income households and people of color.”

Fast Company

New Harvard report unpacks the wild state of housing in 2021

The top-line facts are striking. Home buying is up to the highest rate seen since the peak of the housing boom in 2006. And the number of people unable to either buy a home or spend less than a third of their income on housing is near a historic high.

Bloomberg

America Has a Housing Mess, and President Biden Wants to Fix It

It’s like sedimentary rock,” says Chris Herbert, the managing director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. “There’s never really been a time when we sat down and said, ‘Let’s think about a coherent U.S. housing policy.’”