Tag Archives: JCHS

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 ...

Using newly released data from the Census Bureau, a new blog post outlines how affordability declined during the pandemic, increasing the number of households that are “cost-burdened”—those that pay more than 30% of their income on housing.

Don Layton, former CEO of Freddie Mac and current Senior Industry Pellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, lays out four benchmarks against which to grade the GSEs as their plans are implemented.

The record-breaking year that was 2021 seems to be a one-off performance, as the 2022 market is experiencing the upward creep of mortgage rates compounded with record-high prices, which is only adding to affordability issues.

It is no secret that the COVID-19 turned the world on its end. Entire industries ground to a halt overnight, eliminating countless jobs and putting even more on furloughs. Low wage workers who predominately rent have ...

This metric used to measure the nation's financial health has remained virtually unchanged for 130 years—can housing-finance policy make a difference?