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

“Demand for affordable, accessible housing, in-home services, and neighborhood supports and amenities is set to soar—yet right now, we fall well short of meeting even today’s needs,” said Jennifer Molinsky with the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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 in particular has been particularly harsh—the share of Black renter households who ...

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University provides a glimpse into affordability challenges and the number of cost-burdened households, using newly released data from the Census Bureau.

Don Layton, Former CEO of Freddie Mac, lays out four major points the GSEs should consider as related programs go online.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University takes a look at a few key datapoints, which give a better picture of how the market is faring as we near the year’s halfway point.

Americans have a lot invested in residential real estate, about $12 Trillion by way of traditional first mortgages on single-family homes. While that number may be shocking, 70% of that debt has been financed by four government agencies Freddie Mac ...

Households are resorting to non-traditional sources of income to meet financial obligations during the pandemic in a time when many fell behind on their payments.