With funding from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 19 students from across Harvard will work on issues related to housing and community development this summer…
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Three Harvard doctoral students have been named 2024 John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellows by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Justin Katz is a…
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Annual expenditures for improvements and repairs to owner-occupied homes are projected to decrease this year and into the first quarter of 2025, but at a…
CAMBRIDGE, MA – For over three decades, Dr. Margot Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to…
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January 25, 2024
Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. This all-time high of 22.4 million…
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Climbing rents have propelled cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. The number of renter households…
Spending for residential improvements and repairs is expected to shrink this year for the first time since 2010, but signs point to some easing of declines by year’s end,…
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November 30, 2023
Over the next ten years, the US population over the age of 75 will increase by 45 percent, from 17 million to nearly 25 million. The growth is widespread, across urban,…
CAMBRIDGE, MA – The US population 65 and over soared by 34 percent in the last decade, from 43 million in 2012 to 58 million in 2022. In the coming decade, the fastest growth…
CAMBRIDGE, MA – What is the state of housing design in the US, and how are architects responding to issues such as climate change, the affordability crisis, increasing…
