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Legalizing Mid-Rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts

Boston Indicators, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Utile • October 9, 2024

There is a growing recognition that zoning reform alone won’t solve the housing crisis. It can certainly create an onramp for more, and better, housing construction but it’s…
Working Papers

Modularization Precedes Digitalization in Offsite Housing Delivery

Ivan Rupnik, Ryan E. Smith, Tyler Schmetterer • November 22, 2022

For much of the twentieth century, architects, builders, developers, economists, and policymakers have pursued the “dream of the factory-made house”. The hope was that the…
Reports

The State of the Nation's Housing 2020

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • November 19, 2020

This year, the COVID-19 pandemic, a powerful movement for racial justice, and the devastating impacts of climate change have combined to bring the nation’s longstanding…
Reports

America's Rental Housing 2020

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • January 31, 2020

Despite slowing demand and the continued strength of new construction, rental markets in the US remain extremely tight. Vacancy rates are at decades-long lows, pushing up…
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Exploring a Decade of Contract for Deed Sales in the Midwest

Ann Carpenter, Taz George, Lisa Nelson • August 29, 2019

Contract for deed home sales, a once-notorious practice that seemingly faded into obscurity in the 1970s, have gained greater attention in the wake of the foreclosure crisis…
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The State of the Nation's Housing 2019

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • June 25, 2019

Although household growth is returning to a more normal pace, this year's State of the Nation's Housing report shows that housing production still falls short of what is…