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Housing affordability was a chronic problem in many cities across North America and across the globe well before the global pandemic triggered an unprecedented surge in rents…

Digitalization, which has already changed how housing is produced, sold, financed, and used, could also improve how we plan, review, regulate, and shape both housing and…

As tools like Alexa, Google Home, and Siri have shown, digitalization is changing how we live in our homes. While many of the changes are related to lifestyle, they also have…

As the rise of companies like Zillow and Rocket Mortgage illustrate, big data and data analytics have significantly changed how people search for and finance housing. The…

Big data and the growing use of data analytics are transforming how residential real estate is bought, sold, and managed, often in ways that are making it easier for…

Could digitalization significantly change how housing is designed and built? If so, could those changes reduce the cost of producing housing and/or improve design? Two new…

Digitalization—the strategic use of technology to collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing how housing is produced, marketed, sold,…

Digitalization—the strategic use of technologies that collect, create, process, organize, analyze, use, and monetize data—is changing the ways that housing is produced,…

While many studies have shown that most foreclosures during the Great Recession occurred in minority or disadvantaged neighborhoods, few have carefully examined neighborhood-…

In “Congested cities vs. sprawl makes you fat: unpacking the health effects of density,” an essay that recently appeared in Town Planning Review, Ann Forsyth, a professor of…