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Has the Rental Market Peaked? If So, That's Good News for Low-Income Renters

A new Harvard study reports that the rental market began to decline this year, and may continue to drop as higher income renters become homeowners. However, the report was released a week before the GOP tax cuts bill was signed.

December 26, 2017 - Business Insider

Fire Escape

On to a New Era of Rental Housing

A decade after an epochal shift in the housing market, the country is changing again.

December 15, 2017 - Joint Center for Housing Studies

Uptown Oakland

Study: Integrated Neighborhoods More Common Across the U.S.

A Harvard study suggests that since 2000, the number of Americans living in racially integrated neighborhoods has risen. But this may be a temporary effect of gentrification, and integration remains an exception to the rule.

October 13, 2017 - Housing Perspectives

Single Family Residential Construction

Austin's Affordable Housing Stock Shrunk More Than Any Other U.S. Metro

For all the talk of Texas' relatively affordable housing prices, the city of Austin is one of the worst examples of one of the dominant trends in the U.S. real estate market—fewer and fewer options for affordable rental housing.

July 2, 2017 - The Urban Edge

New York Apartments

The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis Is Only Getting Worse

The headline from the latest report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies on the state of the nation's housing market focuses on a shrinking, broken rental market.

June 18, 2017 - Affordable Housing Finance

Portland

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June 24, 2016 - Planetizen

Construction

Harvard Report: U.S. Housing Recovery Losing Momentum

The State of the Nation's Housing, a closely watched report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, was released to the public today.

June 24, 2015 - Joint Center for Housing Studies

Housing America's Older Population—New Report Details the Challenge

A new study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and the AARP Foundation has produced a pile of data on the country's aging population and its implications for housing and planning policy.

September 3, 2014 - Harvard University Gazette

Domestic Millennial

Study: Millennials Will Soon Boost the Housing Industry

Although the recession disrupted household creation by Millennials, a new study from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies suggests the generation will soon start to create households in large, influential numbers.

June 30, 2014 - The Washington Post

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