Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 20, 2025
The US remodeling market soared above $600 billion in the wake of the pandemic and remains 50 percent above pre-pandemic levels. Nonetheless, industry fragmentation,…
Carlos Martín, Alan Mallach, Todd Swanstrom, Austin Harrison, Sophia Wedeen
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August 27, 2024
The deterioration and loss of America’s housing is a threat to the health, safety, security, and financial well-being of millions of low-income residents. Researchers link…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 23, 2023
Sparked by pandemic-induced changes in household routines and use of living space, home improvement and repair spending soared to new heights in 2022, reaching an estimated $…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 25, 2021
While the US economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2020, spending on home improvements and repairs grew more than 3 percent, to nearly $420 billion, as people modified living…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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March 12, 2019
The U.S. market for home improvement and repair is now well over $400 billion annually as the housing stock faces pressure to meet the nation's growing and changing housing…
Consumer concerns over potential health impacts of household products and the built environment are by no means new, yet in recent years interest in this topic has grown…
While the Joint Center produces regular projections of home remodeling and repair activity at the national level, new analysis of the American Housing Surveys (AHS) suggests…
The robust gains in the national home remodeling market in recent years mask significant variation in spending trends at the local level. This research examining metro-level…
