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September 23, 2019
U.S. Has Lost 4 Million Low-Cost Rental Homes Since 1990
A working paper from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, Documenting the Long-Run Decline in Low-Cost Rental Units in the US by State, finds the number of rental homes renting for less than $600 per month (in constant 2017 dollars) has fallen by nearly 4 million since 1990.…
September 3, 2019
NYCHA’s Strategies for Meeting Public Housing Capital Repair Needs Face Serious Obstacles
A recently published research brief from the Furman Center, NYCHA’s Road Ahead: Capital and Operating Budget Needs, Shortfalls, and Plans, reviewed how the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) plans to address its massive public housing repair needs in the coming years and identified a number of…
September 3, 2019
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Report Shows Decline in First-Time Homebuying
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University released The Shifting Profile of First-Time Homebuyers: 1997–2017, which shows a decline in the annual volume and rate of first-time homebuying over that time period. The authors also observe that first homes have become larger and more…
A recent paper in Housing Policy Debate, “The Cost of Code Violations: How Building Codes Shape Residential Sales Prices and Rents,” found that unresolved building code violations have a different impact on residential sale prices than on rents in Chicago. Resolving violations increases rents but…