The timing of the recent surge in immigration does not line up with the high growth in both rents and home prices, says Riordan Frost, but immigrants do help expand the supply of much-needed homes given their outsized role in the construction industry. Immigrants accounted for 34% of those who worked in construction trades in 2023, far higher than their 18% share of the overall workforce. https://lnkd.in/euCwZPRD
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The Harvard JCHS strives to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities.
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The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies strives to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities. We conduct rigorous research to advance policy and practice, and we bring together diverse stakeholders to spark new ideas for addressing housing challenges. Through teaching and fellowships, we mentor and inspire the next generation of housing leaders.
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We are LIVE on this Friday afternoon from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with a full agenda of conversations about innovative solutions to America's housing affordability crisis. Tune in here: https://lnkd.in/gYHcTcBM
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There is excitement in housing policy circles about social housing, where government-funded agencies develop, own, and manage housing for low-income people outside the private for-profit market. But what's the role of public housing in this new system? Our historian Alexander von Hoffman looks at the history of US public housing in a new paper. https://lnkd.in/ePj_aPAe
Can Public Housing Play a Role in a New American Social Housing System?
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Architect and Historian of Housing / Research Fellow, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Thrilled the book is here! Please join us for a first book launch, round table and drinks next Wednesday, October 30 in Zurich. Other occasions to learn about and discuss Zurich's cooperative housing model to follow.
architect & researcher. part of wohnlabor and spaceforfuture.org. PhD candidate at UGent.
ES IST DA! Wir freuen uns über das Erscheinen des Buches Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich. (For information on the book in English, please scroll down.) Und wir feiern das! Mit einer Vernissage im Architekturforum Zürich am Mittwoch, 30.10., 18:30 Uhr. Türöffnung und Barbetrieb ab 18:00 Uhr. Begrüssung durch Moritz Gleich (gta Verlag). Podiumsgespräch zu den Schlüsselerkenntnissen des Buches, der Übertragbarkeit des Zürcher Genossenschafts-Modells auf andere Orte sowie seiner Zukunft in Zürich mit Anne Kockelkorn (Universiteit Gent), Susanne Schindler (Harvard University), Ana Sofia Gonçalves (Gonçalves Hausheer Frey GmbH), Florian Müller (FernUni Schweiz), Claudia Thiesen (Thiesen & Wolf GmbH). Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung: https://lnkd.in/dhGSpW2F Die rote Fibel zu den Bedingungen des genossenschaftlichen Wohnungsbaus Zürich, gestaltet von Dorothée Billard und Clara Neumann, kann man in gedruckter Form bestellen–oder online herunterladen: https://lnkd.in/dYs6ZtJh /////////// THE BOOK Recent cooperative housing projects in Zurich have become icons of architectural design internationally. But what makes innovation in nonprofit housing possible within a largely for-profit real estate market? What has enabled Zurich’s lasting commitment to nonspeculation for more than one hundred years? How does built architecture partake in these processes — and how does its partaking expand the definition of architecture? Cooperative Conditions answers these questions in a systematic investigation of eight conditions that have allowed Zurich’s cooperative housing to thrive under the principles of public benefit, or Gemeinnützigkeit. By analyzing specific financial and regulatory instruments, their history, and their intersection with the built environ- ment, this primer shows that the exceptional quality in Zurich’s cooperative housing is possible because of, not despite, the commitment to nonspeculation. Kockelkorn, Anne, Susanne Schindler, and Rebekka Hirschberg. Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich. Zürich: gta Verlag, 2024. Print and open access 14.5 × 22 cm, PDF 312 pages, 155 illustrations Text in English ISBN 978-3-85676-465-4 https://lnkd.in/dYs6ZtJh Design: Dorothée Billard, Clara Neumann Contributing MAS ETH in History and Theory of Architecture students: Kadir Asani, Nina Baisch, Hanae Balissat, Anna Derriks, Sébastien El Idrissi, Armin Fuchs, Lale Geyer, Sanna Kattenbeck, Abbas Mansouri, Bianca M., Gina Rauschtenberger, Olga Rausch, Kristin Sasama, Sarah Hummel-Smit, Kana Ueda, and Alexia Zeller. Thank you to gta Verlag!
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Intergenerational residential communities can address social isolation, housing affordability, and other challenges but are relatively rare in the US, says Jennifer Hrabchak Molinsky. A new Generations United report out this week (webinar 10/24) examines this promising housing alternative and how it can scale. https://lnkd.in/dBrhBcTW
A Blueprint for Intergenerational Living
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In this election, writes our managing director Chris Herbert, housing affordability has finally become a center stage issue. So what are the candidates proposing to address the housing crisis? He examines both candidate's plans in a new op-ed for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. https://lnkd.in/eT3Hk2ew
Housing Takes Center Stage in the Presidential Election
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This Friday, October 25: What are the most promising, impactful, and innovative solutions to address housing affordability in the US? Join us for the Ivory Prize Housing Innovation Summit, online or in-person at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. https://t.co/uQzcZumFWF
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TODAY @ 12:15 pm ET: Our historian Alexander von Hoffman discusses a new paper that examines the nearly 100-year history of public housing in the US and the role the public sector might play in a new social housing system. https://lnkd.in/dPmaqyws
The Role of Public Housing in a New Social Housing System
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After a mild pullback over the previous year, home #remodeling spending is set to expand once again by the middle of next year, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA). https://lnkd.in/eVQnAuWn
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The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the first major components of the ACS survey for 2023, and they provide several important data points relevant for housing trends. Here are ten notable stories in the new data: https://lnkd.in/e9GRH9JE
10 Major Housing Stories from the Latest ACS Data
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