Grantee Profile

Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies

Grants to Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies

  • $450,000Active Strategy

    2011 (Duration 2 years)

    Housing

    CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies addresses a broad range of housing issues through research, education, and public outreach programs. It publishes the State of the Nation's Housing, which reviews annual trends in the U.S. housing sector, and, with Foundation support, has produced three biennial reports on the state of rental housing that have provided important information about the rental stock and the challenge of providing adequate affordable rental housing for people of modest means. The Joint Center will use this grant to produce its fourth report, in 2013.

  • $500,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Duration 3 years)

    Housing

    CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — To support a historical analysis of the affordable rental housing preservation industry and to prepare case studies of local impact (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies $950,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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