Our new working paper explores healthy home concerns and behaviors among American homeowners and renters. We show that both groups are interested in improving the indoor…
Mariel Wolfson, Elizabeth La Jeunesse
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March 25, 2016
Information about Americans' healthy housing concerns, including principles of indoor air and environmental quality, and surveys analyzing perceptions of homeowners, renters…
Allison Charette, Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics, Ellen Marya, Daniel McCue
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September 21, 2015
This report shows that the number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1…
Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics
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September 21, 2015
Earlier today, Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies released Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015–2025, which…
This Spring, I attended the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day conference attracted over 1,000 attendees, including more than 150…
W14-9: Increasingly recognizing that stable and affordable housing is a necessary but not sufficient condition to lift families out of poverty, organizations in the…
Current discussions of climate change do not often focus on housing. Unless large numbers of homes are destroyed or damaged by extreme weather events such as hurricanes,…
W13-4: This paper is part of a larger project that situates American housing within the ecologically-oriented 1970s, when energy independence and environmental…