How are neighborhood communities created when the government provides free housing to a specific population? The paper examines the formation processes of displaced…
This paper explores and contributes to scholarship on the escalating related concerns of environmental conservation and housing affordability. Situated within contemporary…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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January 13, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, renters in the United States were facing a housing affordability crisis. Nearly a quarter of renter households were spending more than half…
Samara Scheckler, Jennifer Molinsky
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December 3, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, service coordinators played a pivotal role in the support of older adult residents of publicly funded housing properties. Some independent…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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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…
The GSE reform question, i.e. how should the government-sponsored enterprises of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac end their conservatorships, has proven to be one of the most…
Jennifer Molinsky, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Rodney Harrell, Shannon Guzman
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October 30, 2020
Around the world, a rapidly aging population has helped spur a recognition of the importance of creating livable and age-friendly neighborhoods and places where people of all…
The two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have just entered into their thirteenth year of conservatorship, despite its originally having been…
Today, more than twelve years into conservatorship, the path forward for the reform of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), is in some…
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced in mid-July it would at last do a review of the secondary mortgage market. For many decades, housing finance policy…
