A new blog post by David Luberoff and Chris Herbert, from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, discusses digitalization in a changing real estate market.
Read More »Low-Income Homeowners Face Significant Challenges After A Disaster
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 ...
Read More »New Mortgage Payments Up $800 YoY
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 ...
Read More »Housing Problems Faced by America’s Seniors
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.
Read More »Black Renters in ‘Harsh’ Situation
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 ...
Read More »Number of Cost-Burdened Households Increased During Pandemic
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.
Read More »Equitable Opportunities, the GSEs, and Gauging Success
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.
Read More »Will 2022 Break as Many Housing Records as 2021?
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.
Read More »Biden Administration Reinforces Efforts to Reduce the Homeownership Gap
HUD has announced plans to prioritize its goal of advancing equity for all and addressing the need for affordable housing nationwide.
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