Featured series 
Tag: Housing
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Health
Dangers coming from inside the house
John D. Spengler reflects on 50-year career of clearing the air — including in hockey rinks and on airplanes
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Nation & World
How 3 mayors are combating homelessness
City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis
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Health
How super-agers keep their brains young
In podcast, experts break down ‘biological contradiction’ of a 65-year-old with the memory of a 25-year-old — and what that means for the rest of us
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Work & Economy
‘Harvard Thinking’: Priced out of the American dream
In podcast, experts discuss factors fueling housing crisis — from overregulation to NIMBYism — and how to fix it
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Nation & World
Aging independently, by design
Most older adults say they want to spend their golden years in their own homes. The reality is more complicated, says urban planning expert.
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Nation & World
How design of public housing can lift future prospects of children
New research builds upon previous work that focused on moving families from high-poverty areas, broadening social milieu of young
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2026–2027
Rental rates remain flat for current HUH tenants who extend lease
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Work & Economy
Inequality and location, location, location
Inaugural Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics studies interaction of geography with housing, labor markets
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Nation & World
A call for corporate America to step up on homeless crisis
Business School initiative brings together leaders from business, government, academia
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Health
‘Surprise and relief’ from homeless patients: ‘This works for me’
Doctors report ‘fascinating and counterintuitive’ results delivering healthcare to hard-to-reach population via telehealth
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Campus & Community
Frustrated fighting wildfires in L.A., he resolved to build better tools
Rupen Dajee launches tech startup to aid emergency responders, leveraging lessons learned firsthand as EMT, firefighter
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Campus & Community
4 things we learned this week
How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.
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Health
Sick again? Maybe your building is to blame.
Take our research-based quiz to learn more about how indoor air quality can harm or protect your health
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Nation & World
Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits record high
Public policy expert discusses possible ways to cut costs amid national housing crunch
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Nation & World
Americans used to move around a lot, chasing opportunity. No more.
Yoni Appelbaum argues legal, political hurdles over past 50 years have had troubling economic, social consequences
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Campus & Community
Boston, Harvard announce affordable housing funding
Nearly 100 units to be created in Allston
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2025–2026
Increase on average 5% for renewing tenants
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Work & Economy
Is small thinking the new American way?
Study says tighter land-use controls have hurt productivity and innovation among builders, fueling housing crisis
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes rents for 2024–2025
Increases will range from 0 to 8 percent
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Work & Economy
New inflation report offers hope, but expert says we’re not out of woods yet
Harvard economist breaks down what latest inflation report may mean for the year ahead.
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Work & Economy
When will hot housing market finally start to cool?
A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.
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Work & Economy
A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Campus & Community
Where’s Super Mario?
Mario Leon picked up the nickname Super Mario as a sign of affection over his lengthy tenure as the warm, helpful building manager at Pforzheimer House.
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Nation & World
Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds
New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.
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Campus & Community
When housing becomes a community
When Micaela Connery’s cousin was born with significant physical and developmental disabilities, Connery didn’t realize the full impact it would have on her life. This spring Connery will graduate with an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Science & Tech
When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t
Some Airbnb hosts discriminate on the basis of race, suggests a study by researchers at Harvard Business School.
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Campus & Community
New rents for Harvard housing
In accordance with the University’s fair market rent policy, Harvard University Housing (HUH) charges market rents. The greater Boston rental market is experiencing low vacancy rates and robust rent increases. The proposed 2013-14 market rents will increase on average 6 percent relative to last year, across the 3,000-unit HUH portfolio.
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Campus & Community
Growing community for students
At the start of the fall semester, the popular Graduate Commons program was expanded to include two additional buildings, more than doubling the number of units included in the program.
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Nation & World
The housing industry, adrift
Former HUD Secretary Mel Martinez called for innovative solutions to the nation’s housing crisis and proposed less government, more private-sector initiative, and clarity on Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
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Nation & World
Middle class woe
The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists in a Harvard forum on April 27.
