Information From Past Pandemics, And What We Can Learn: A Literature Review
In both the 1918 influenza and the 2003 SARS outbreaks, economic activity fell sharply during the epidemic but snapped back once it ended.
Policy & Industry
Homeowners Embrace “Missing Middle” Housing, Remain Wary of Large Apartment Development
Among homeowners, support for so-called “missing-middle” housing options – the creation of mother-in-law suites and or allowing for duplex/triplex development on current single-family lots – is widespread.
Black Homeownership Shows Signs of Healing From the Wounds of the Great Recession
The U.S. black homeownership rate surged at the end of the 2010s, an encouraging sign that black homebuyers are increasingly succeeding in getting their slice of the American dream.
Mapping America’s Metropolitan Growth: Islands of Density in a Sea of No Growth
There are currently almost 140 million homes in the United States, and analyzing where, when and how they were built tells a vivid story of America’s metropolitan growth.
A Modest Proposal: How Even Minimal Densification Could Yield Millions of New Homes
Across 17 metro areas analyzed, allowing 10% of single-family lots to house two units instead of one could yield almost 3.3 million additional housing units.
The Housing Reasons Why Latinxs Have Less Wealth Than Whites
Latinxs are becoming homeowners at a higher rate than the overall U.S. population, beginning to close a gap with the white homeownership rate that has tripled since the start of last century. Despite recent gains, the homeownership gap -- currently sitting at 24.7 percentage points -- will take decades to close.
Experts: It May Take Years for Home Building to Get Back to Historic Levels
Today’s slow pace of single-family home building isn’t expected to get back to historic norms until 2022 or later, according to a Zillow survey of experts.
How the Housing Bust Widened the Wealth Gap for Communities of Color
When the housing market went bust, homes in communities of color were more likely to succumb to foreclosure than homes in white communities.
These Low-Income Communities Should Prepare for an Influx of Cash
Local leaders have additional policy options they can layer atop Opportunity Zone investments to achieve their desirable policy outcomes from developments—such as maintaining affordable housing, creating jobs for residents, supporting green building, and so on.
Sale Prices Surge in Neighborhoods With New Tax Break
Sale prices ticked up sharply in some of the nation’s lowest-income and highest-poverty communities near the end of last year—but mostly in the neighborhoods now eligible for newly created tax breaks.
