Housing Markets & Finance

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Testimony

How racial disparities in home prices reveal widespread discrimination

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Family celebrating in front of house with for-sale sign

Housing Markets & Finance

Government-sponsored enterprises at the crossroads

Michael Calhoun and Lewis Ranieri

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Row of houses

The Avenue

The real estate industry is divesting from Donald Trump—but divesting from white supremacy requires more

Tracy Hadden Loh and Andre M. Perry

Thursday, February 11, 2021

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The Avenue

How a Kansas City neighborhood is protecting renters while investing in itself

David Kemper and Kavya Shankar

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Reports

Houses

Essay

Risky (housing) business: Distorted and destabilized housing markets are pushing households into climate-risky, low-opportunity communities

Christopher Coes, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Tola Myczkowska

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Houses

Essay

The Great Real Estate Reset: A data-driven initiative to remake how and what we build

Christopher Coes, Jennifer S. Vey, and Tracy Hadden Loh

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Houses

Essay

Separate and unequal: Persistent residential segregation is sustaining racial and economic injustice in the U.S

Tracy Hadden Loh, Christopher Coes, and Becca Buthe

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Houses

Essay

The office, reimagined: The nature of office work is shifting, and so must downtowns

Tracy Hadden Loh

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Houses

Essay

Modernizing family: America’s demographics are transforming, but our housing supply is not

Tracy Hadden Loh and Evan Farrar

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Blog Posts

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The Avenue

Dismantling white privilege starts with undoing racist housing policies

Andre M. Perry and Stuart Yasgur

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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The Avenue

Four reasons why more public housing isn’t the solution to affordability concerns

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Face mask on top of an eviction note

Up Front

Housing inequality gets worse as the COVID-19 pandemic is prolonged

Yung Chun and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, December 18, 2020

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Events

Affordable housing for special-needs adults

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Webinar: State of the Capital region 2020 — A region in demographic and economic transition

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Webinar: Valuing Black lives and property in America’s Black cities

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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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

Experts

Tracy Hadden Loh

Fellow - Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

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Jenny Schuetz

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Andre M. Perry

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

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Multimedia

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris watches as President Joe Biden signs executive orders on his racial equity agenda at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Podcast Episode

What steps is the Biden administration taking on racial equity?

Andre M. Perry and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A bicyclist sits in traffic near a housing construction project in San Francisco, California June 2, 2015. The median rent for an apartment in the city is now $4,225 per month, according to local media. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Podcast Episode

America’s housing crisis and the gatekeeping of opportunity

Jenny Schuetz and Conor Dougherty

Friday, March 6, 2020

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The Avenue

Discriminatory housing practices are leading to the devaluation of Black Americans

Thursday, February 13, 2020

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More on Housing Markets & Finance

Homeowners

Rethinking homeownership incentives to improve household financial security and shrink the racial wealth gap

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Eviction notice

To weather the coming eviction crisis, cities need better rent relief programs

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Rent due

How many households can’t pay next month’s rent? That’s a tricky question.

Monday, October 26, 2020

Needham MA

Fixing Greater Boston’s housing crisis starts with legalizing apartments near transit

Sarah Crump, Trevor Mattos, Jenny Schuetz, and Luc Schuster

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Stock Photo

An eviction moratorium without rental assistance hurts smaller landlords, too

Kristen E. Broady, Wendy Edelberg, and Emily Moss

Monday, September 21, 2020

american suburb

Trump is clinging to an outdated vision of America’s suburbs

Elizabeth Kneebone

Thursday, August 20, 2020