Black American communities have faced disproportionate negative impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, including higher rates of infection and pandemic-induced income loss. In “…
Black American communities have faced many disparate negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including higher rates of infection and pandemic-induced job loss. Given the…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Ben Demers, Solomon Greene, Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Sophia Wedeen
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April 8, 2021
The COVID pandemic has had a particularly large impact on the financial well-being of renters in the US, and over the past year millions have struggled to pay rent. While…
Providing between $25,000 and $100,000 per unit in assistance for shared equity homeownership opportunities would allow approximately 6.6 million additional households to…
Kristin Perkins, Shannon Rieger, Jonathan Spader, Chris Herbert
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October 21, 2019
Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…
Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…
Children experience many changes in their households while they are growing up. But while we often think about divorcing and remarrying parents as common changes in household…
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint…
Research on family instability typically measures changes in coresident parents, but children also experience changes among other household members. The likelihood of…
Foreclosures have negative effects not only for the people who lose their homes, but also for the neighborhoods where they lived.
In an article that recently appeared in…
