Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 23, 2008
Housing markets contracted for a second straight year in 2007. The national median single-family home price fell in nominal terms for the first time in 40 years of…
W08-3: This paper inventories strategies for maintaining affordable housing toward perpetuity in hot markets in an increasing number of locales. Long-term affordable…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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April 30, 2008
The damage from today’s mortgage foreclosure crisis reaches deep into the rental market. With affordability already a long-standing problem, the current housing debacle not…
RR07-11: The paper then reviews local housing policy in three case-study cities in states with different approaches to housing and land use policy: California,…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 11, 2007
After setting records for home sales, single-family starts, and house price appreciation in 2005, housing markets abruptly reversed last year. In 2006, total home sales fell…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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April 1, 2007
W07-2: Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summitcommunicates essential findings from the symposium Revisiting Rental Housing: A National…
RR07-12: The strengths and weaknesses of nonprofit organizations in developing and owning subsidized rental housing are examined. In the course of this study, a number…
RR07-16: The problems presented by at risk, vacant and abandoned rental properties are national in scope, although their magnitude varies by state and locality. While…
RR07-9: This paper considers what the appropriate design of government policies towards rental housing subsidies would be in the absence of the long and mixed legacy of…
RR07-1: The nation faces many longstanding rental housing challenges. Chief among these concerns are widespread rental affordability problems, neighborhood decline, the…
