Declining immigration could mean nearly 500,000 fewer households formed annually by 2027, writes @dmccue.bsky.social, with important implications for housing markets. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/househo...

Household Growth to Increasingly Feel the Impacts of the Immigration Drop

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Gen Alpha has 2M fewer people than Gen Z did at the same age—and low immigration means they won't close that gap by their prime formation years. That's one of two headwinds facing young adult HH growth. The other: affordability. My @harvard-jchs.bsky.social blog: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/afforda...

Annual remodeling spending is expected to continue losing momentum through mid-2027, according to our latest LIRA. Year-over-year growth in renovation and repair spending is expected to slow to just 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2027. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/remodel...

Starting shortly, still time to join us!

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Many cities face a shortage of housing and a surplus of underused office space. 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 (𝗢𝟮𝗥) 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 have emerged as a promising strategy to boost housing. Join us 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟮 for a conversation about O2R design, compromises, and innovations. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hom...

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, July 22 @ 12:30 pm ET, for a conversation about office-to-residential conversions. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hom...

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Many cities face a shortage of housing and a surplus of underused office space. 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 (𝗢𝟮𝗥) 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 have emerged as a promising strategy to boost housing. Join us 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟮 for a conversation about O2R design, compromises, and innovations. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hom...

US homes are older than ever and in a new blog @sophiawedeen.bsky.social writes: • 1 in 4 owners live in a home built before 1960 • Higher-income owners spend 3x more on repairs than lower-income owners • Millions live in homes that are physically inadequate www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/many-ow...

Many Owners Cannot Afford to Maintain Aging Homes

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Livestream kicks off now... www.tbf.org/events/2026/...

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We've spent years reforming zoning. Now it's time to take a hard look at building codes. A @bosindicators.bsky.social / @harvard-jchs.bsky.social report finds many code provisions were written for a different era. Updating them can reduce costs while maintaining safety & expanding housing choices.

Property insurance costs are a threat to multifamily affordable housing. Recent @gsd.harvard.edu graduate Ariella Amit shares what multifamily affordable housing owners and developers can do to manage high property insurance costs. @neighborworks.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/managin...

Managing Property Insurance Costs in Multifamily Affordable Housing Organizations

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The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation. https://cnn.it/4f964lc

Many cities face a shortage of housing and a surplus of underused office space. 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 (𝗢𝟮𝗥) 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 have emerged as a promising strategy to boost housing. Join us 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟮 for a conversation about O2R design, compromises, and innovations. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hom...

Home from Work: Design Trade-Offs in Office-to-Residential Conversions

This event will bring together architects behind major office-to-residential conversions to discuss the design strategies, compromises, and innovations defining this emerging typology. What trade-offs...

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A terrific opportunity for state housing agencies, from our friends at the @harvardkennedy.bsky.social Government Performance Lab. 👇 govlab.hks.harvard.edu/insight/acce...

Accelerating Housing Production: Bridging the Gap Between Pro-Housing State Legislation and Local Housing Supply

Read insights from government leaders, practitioners, and researchers on the barriers and opportunities for building more housing.

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Limited equity cooperatives (LECs) are shifting from a niche experiment to an essential housing affordability tool. A new paper looks at recent LEC efforts nationwide, what’s working, what isn’t, and why they’re powerful but not a silver bullet. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/learnin...

Learning From Recent Efforts to Create Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives

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In a new @gsd.harvard.edu magazine essay, @magdamaaoui.bsky.social & @airbrycki.bsky.social unpack how the Massachusetts’ MBTA Communities Act is playing out across the state. While compliance with the law looks high, their research shows more nuance. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/mbt...

Why Assessing the MBTA Communities Act Is More Complicated Than You Think

New Harvard GSD research shows that compliance with the Massachusetts transit-linked zoning law is more widespread than the media depicts.

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Declining immigration is undermining national population growth, per the @harvard-jchs.bsky.social State of the Nation's Housing report, and my most recent blog post explains how that breaks down on the local level: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/declini....

Declining Immigration Undermines Urban and Rural Population Growth

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Massachusetts needs more housing, especially in walkable, transit-served neighborhoods. Recent policy reform has focused on zoning, but building codes play a key role in what kind of housing gets built. Join us July 14 for a new @bosindicators.bsky.social report. www.tbf.org/Events/2026/...

From 2014-2024, the number of apartments renting for under $1,000/mo dropped by a third. “It's a function of a lack of supply pushing up rents generally, and the fact that building new has gotten so bloody expensive,” says our managing director Chris Herbert. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

The shortage of affordable housing hits lowest-income households particularly hard

There’s not much out there for people at the low end of the income spectrum, and those households are more likely to pay at least half their income on rent and utilities.

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The 2026 State of the Nation's Housing report is out, and the headlines are telling. Check out the key takeaways from @harvard-jchs.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/ten-tak...

Ten Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing

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“The 2026 report… reveals a market where activity remains subdued, demand is weakening, and high costs are sidelining many would-be buyers and renters.” www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/ten-tak... Via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Ten Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing

Each year, our State of the Nation’s Housing report offers a snapshot of how US households are faring in finding and affording a place to live. The 2026 report (being released with a livestream today…

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Home prices are up 54% since 2020!

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies@harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Home prices are up 54% since 2020, and the median existing single-family sales price is 5x the median household income. Meanwhile, 22.7 million renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Our new report is out today; 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 @ 𝟰𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧. www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...

In 2021, about 2 million new households formed. In 2025, that number decreased by almost a half. What could that mean for the housing market?

Fewer Americans are forming new households. That could make housing even more expensive.

When the price of housing is high, moving out of a family home or other group living situation to live on one’s own is less attractive.

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High costs and short supply are hurting the U.S. housing market, as household growth slowed for the third straight year in 2025. Our managing director Chris Herbert discussed the new report on @cbsnews.com yesterday. www.cbsnews.com/video/househ...

Our State of the Nation's Housing livestream is kicking off now, still time to join us! www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/sta...

Why so many Americans can’t afford housing anymore

Why so many Americans can’t afford housing anymore

The cost and toll of America's housing crisis is displayed in charts and statistics.

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“The 2026 report… reveals a market where activity remains subdued, demand is weakening, and high costs are sidelining many would-be buyers and renters.” www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/ten-tak... Via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Ten Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing

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As cost burdens for renters reached another record high, 20.7 million homeowners were cost burdened in 2024 as well, a whopping increase of 4.0 million households since 2019. Try the interactive maps in our new State of the Nation's Housing report, out today: www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...

Home prices are up 54% since 2020, and the median existing single-family sales price is 5x the median household income. Meanwhile, 22.7 million renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Our new report is out today; 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 @ 𝟰𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧. www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nation...

Our 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 report, out today, reveals 22.7 million cost-burdened renters, record-low mobility, and home sales at 30-year lows as Americans struggle with affordability. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Next Mon, June 22, @samarascheckler.bsky.social will join this @habitat-org.bsky.social event, 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽: 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 to share the work our Center is doing on Black intergenerational homeownership. Register to attend: shorturl.at/iGlbc

Delighted to announce that two @harvard.edu PhD candidates have been named 2026 Meyer Fellows: Seetha Davis is a PhD candidate @hsph.harvard.edu and a medical student at @harvardmed.bsky.social. Shira Li is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School. www.jchs.harvard.edu/press-releas...

Two PhD Candidates Named 2026 Meyer Dissertation Fellows

Two Harvard PhD candidates have been named 2026 John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellows by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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Property management companies play an important role in the rental market, and are critical for tenants, but we know surprisingly little about how their portfolios differ and how concentrated the industry really is. @airbrycki.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/landsca...

The Landscape of Apartment Property Management

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