Tag Archives: Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS)

Efforts to use this digitized data for urban development must also keep in mind how this sort of data has been used historically. A new post from David Luberoff, Deputy Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, dives into the concept.

A new blog post by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University examines the shrinking share of Americans that have moved over the last two years, falling back to numbers seen before the pandemic began.

“Falling incomes and rising rents during the pandemic eroded affordability once again, leaving renter households with less residual income,” the JCHS said.

According to recent data, the U.S. is short approximately four million housing units, a gap which is only growing, as well as the number of over-burdened renters and owners.

According to newly-released Census Bureau data, more homeowners and renters than ever are cost-burdened, paying more than 30% of their monthly income on rent.

According to new data, even “luxury” upgrades were found to have a poor ROI with half coming in at 50% or lower.

Disasters have been making headlines recently after a pair of hurricanes—Fiona and Ian—caused damage in the territory of Puerto Rico and from Florida up the East Coast, but ...

It’s no secret that the combination of rising home prices along with a trend of increasing interest rates have made buying the typical single-family home much more expensive, if ...

According to a new report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies, seniors are already experiencing housing woes, and that number is only set to grow as more Baby Boomers come of age.

The fact that housing and mortgage rates have done nothing but rise over the last year has hampered affordability across the board, but the impact on Black renters ...