Overview
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Explore the key findings of the 2015 State of the Nation's Housing report in this comprehensive webcast from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Delve into crucial topics such as the slowing U.S. housing recovery, declining homeownership rates, stagnant single-family construction, and cooling existing home sales. Examine the contrasting growth in rental markets and the increasing number of cost-burdened renters across income levels. Learn from a panel of experts as they discuss various aspects of the housing market, including single-family home construction, factors affecting homeownership, racial wealth gap, housing recovery, affordable housing, the Millennial generation, and foreign investors. Gain valuable insights into the economics of housing, hot neighborhoods, and the challenges facing the U.S. housing market in this informative one-hour presentation.
Syllabus
Introduction
Singlefamily home construction
Factors affecting home ownership
Problems in the housing market
Racial wealth gap
Housing recovery
Question from Twitter
What are they renting
Hot neighborhoods
Economics of housing
Affordable Housing
The Millennial Generation
Foreign Investors
Taught by
Harvard University