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Housing policy

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Tax shift, home lift
Published Spring 2025
New research led by the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School suggests one possible way to help ease the housing affordability crisis: changing U.S. tax policy. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of blue and white houses pointing diagonally to the right showing how real estate prices have grown exponentially
Q+A
The affordable housing crisis
Published Aug 29, 2023
Monopolies of homebuilders are contributing to a housing crunch in the U.S., preventing millions of residents from buying a home, says Johns Hopkins economist Luis Quintero
Apartment with "For Rent" sign
Q+A
U.S. faces looming affordable housing crisis
Published Aug 5, 2020
Johns Hopkins sociologist Meredith Greif discusses the shortage of affordable housing that existed in the U.S. before the coronavirus pandemic swept through, making everything worse
A toddler looks off a balcony at an apartment complex
Mobility program
Smart moves
Published Winter 2019
Sociologist Stefanie DeLuca collaborates on a Seattle housing experiment that aims to lift children out of poverty / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A toddler looks off a balcony at an apartment complex
Mobility program
Smart moves
Published Oct 15, 2019
Sociologist Stefanie DeLuca collaborates on a Seattle housing experiment that aims to lift children out of poverty
Dripping faucet
Sociology
High water bills may harm disadvantaged tenants
Published Oct 1, 2018
When landlords incur high water bills and other fees, they penalize tenants, threatening housing security of those who need it most
Illustration depicts Baltimore rowhomes overlaid with circles and connecting lines suggesting treemaps
Stable homes
Published Summer 2017
To locate vacant Baltimore homes that could be saved from deterioration, acting housing commissioner turned to two JHU applied mathematicians for help / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Map shows colored overlays of sections of the city labeled blue, green, yellow, and red
Best of 2016
'National Geographic' gives nod to N.D.B. Connolly
Published Dec 29, 2016
JHU historian helped digitize government records of redlining in new interactive database
Urban history
The color of bias
Published Winter 2016
The Mapping Inequality project offers unprecedented access to color-coded maps and materials once used to demonstrate neighborhoods' risk and creditworthiness / Johns Hopkins Magazine