PolicyCast
PolicyCast
Harvard Kennedy School
Why Hasn't Homeownership Recovered?
21 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2015 at 6:50 am.
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Christopher Herbert, managing director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, explains whether there’s reason for concern about the state of the US housing market, which has been beset by falling homeownership rates, rising rents, stalling incomes and demographic shifts that threaten to exacerbate trends towards inequality.

If you’d like to learn more, you can read the 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing Report at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies website.