Tag Archives: 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.

“When factoring in the median value of a finished lot, the cost of manufactured housing relative to site-built falls to 54% for single-section homes, 70% for double-section, and 80% for CrossMods. As such, we suggest that manufactured housing may be most attractive in markets with lower land costs, but still offers savings regardless of land cost,” said Chadwick Reed of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

Researchers from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies point out that lawmakers and regulators proved during the pandemic that policy-based housing solutions are possible in a time of crisis.

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

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.

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.