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Why Hasn't Homeownership Recovered?

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Why Hasn't Homeownership Recovered?

30 Sep 2015

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](http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/state_nations_housing) at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies website.
economics economy housing inequality construction rent homeownership class middle

Authors

Harvard Kennedy School

Duration
21:19
Episode number
32
Published in
United States of America

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