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There were temporary shifts in residential mobility during the pandemic, including an increase in moves in early 2020, heightened homeowner moves through 2021, and an…

There were important changes in residential household mobility during the pandemic, some of which proved temporary while others persisted into the post-pandemic period. In a…

In the vocabulary of urban affairs, the term “slum” is among the most powerful. “No word in the language,” wrote Charles Abrams in the 1960s, “has called up more horrible…

The recent surge in immigration has sparked a policy conversation about the role of immigrants in the housing market, particularly when it comes to housing costs. This has…

Lately there’s been a lot of excitement in US housing policy circles about the idea of social housing. Inspired by what they have seen in Europe, advocates of social housing…

Public housing is the oldest and largest supplier of permanently affordable housing in the US, but it has often been left out of the conversation about a new “social housing…

After a slowdown during the pandemic-related closures of 2020, immigration levels surged in 2022 and 2023. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 2.7 million people…

The fuels we use in our homes have wide-reaching effects: nearly one-fifth of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions come from the residential sector. The debate over…

Many cities experienced an urban renaissance as millennials came of age in the 2000s and early 2010s and reshaped neighborhoods in what came to be known as the ‘back to the…

Homelessness spiked 12 percent (71,000 people) in 2023, with more than 650,000 people unhoused, the highest number recorded since data collection began in 2007. The US…