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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…
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…
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies published a report, A Home Builder Perspective on Housing Affordability and Construction Innovation, that finds both single-family and multifamily home builders identify labor and building-material costs and availability to be the largest obstacles…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released the State of the Nation’s Housing Report on June 24. The report’s authors found a continued shortage of affordable housing supply particularly for the lowest-income households and an increase in homelessness after years of…