Housing Markets & Finance

Up Front

How does the Consumer Price Index account for the cost of housing?

David Wessel and Sophia Campbell

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The Avenue

How a Minneapolis public history project is building political will to redress racial housing disparities

Kirsten Delegard and Danya Leebaw

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The Avenue

The public hearing process for new housing is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Anika Singh Lemar

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A pedestrian looks at cherry blossoms in front of an apartment building just after the Spring equinox, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 22, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. With nearly 550,000 confirmed deaths to COVID-19 in America, vaccination rates are going up and nearly 25% of Americans have received at least one dose of a vaccine. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

How We Rise

Economic disparities in the Washington, D.C. metro region provide opportunities for policy action

Camille Busette and Samantha Elizondo

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Reports

Essay

Lessons learned from housing policy during COVID-19

Kris Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Paul Willen, Laurie Goodman, and Susan Wachter

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A calculator, paperwork, and computer on a table

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Bolstered balance sheets: Assessing household finances since 2019

Mitchell Barnes, Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, and Moriah Macklin

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

S dollars on display in the shape of a house.

Report

The impact of beneficial ownership transparency on illicit purchases of US property

Matthew Collin, Florian M. Hollenbach, and David Szakonyi

Monday, March 7, 2022

Report

Housing growth in the Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. metro areas shows why the U.S. is failing at climate resilience

Rushaine Goulbourne and Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Report

Biased appraisals and the devaluation of housing in Black neighborhoods

Jonathan Rothwell and Andre M. Perry

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Blog Posts

The Avenue

Where pro-housing groups are emerging

Cassidy Pearson and Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Up Front

Housing finance reform: The path forward gets rolling

Aaron Klein

Thursday, March 17, 2022

An FBI agent mans his post as the U.S. law enforcement agency conducted a raid at Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's home in Washington, U.S., October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Up Front

The impact of Treasury’s pilot program on stemming the tide of dirty money into US real estate 

Matthew Collin, Florian M. Hollenbach, and David Szakonyi

Monday, March 7, 2022

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Events

2022

Mar

Past Event

BPEA Spring 2022 conference

1:00 PM - Friday Mar 25, 2022 2:00 PM EDT

2022

Feb

Past Event

The path forward for housing finance

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

2021

May

Past Event

State of the Capital Region 2021: Examining the pandemic’s impact on the geography of jobs

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

Homeownership Built to Last

Edited by Eric S. Belsky, Christopher E. Herbert, and Jennifer H. Molinsky

2014

The Future of Housing Finance

Edited by Martin Neil Baily

2011

Regaining the Dream

By Roberto G. Quercia, Allison Freeman, and Janneke Ratcliffe

2011

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Experts

Carlos Martín

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Brookings Metro

Jonathan Rothwell

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

jtrothwell

Camille Busette

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Governance Studies, Brookings Metro

Director - Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative

@CamilleBusette

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Multimedia

Housing Markets & Finance

Homebuyer behavior in hot and cold markets

Robert J. Shiller and Anne K. Thompson

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Podcast Episode

How to fix America’s broken housing systems

Jenny Schuetz and Bill Finan

Friday, February 11, 2022

Podcast Episode

Brookings Metro at 25: Building a more prosperous, just, and resilient future

Jade Arn, Alan Berube, Molly Kinder, Amy Liu, Mark Muro, Joseph Parilla, Andre M. Perry, Jenny Schuetz, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 17, 2021

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