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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…

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…

Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…

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…

This paper examines contract for deed activity across six Midwestern states to improve our understanding of this market and the places in which this activity occurs. Using…

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…

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…

Compared to children who do not move to a new home, children who move are more likely to do worse in school, have more physical and mental health problems, and are more…