RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
RR07-6: For many years, policymakers have agreed that low-income, working-age people who receive government rent subsidies ought to strive for self-sufficiency and that…
RR07-3: At a congressional hearing in 1948, representative A.S. Mike Monroney argued that the construction of new, subsidized rental housing improves the surrounding…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2006
The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…
W05-6: Homeownership has received great support from policy makers because of its perceived significant financial and social benefits for both individuals and…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2005
House prices, residential investment, and home sales all set records again in 2004. But higher short-term interest rates and the strongest one-year price appreciation since…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…
W04-12: The announcement of the NeighborWorks® Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling (NCHEC) presents a legitimate and appropriate opportunity to assess what…
This research examines how nonprofit owners of affordable multifamily rental housing choose their approach to property management. It draws on existing literature on property…
