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Alex Hermann

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Researcher at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Forever Go Blue.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Michigan is a basketball school anyway, football is for schools like Indiana
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Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
JUST PUBLISHED: The [*Open Access*] introduction for the forthcoming special issue of @urbanstudiesjournal.com on manufactured housing. Such fun to work on this with @andrewrumbach.bsky.social, Esther Sullivan & all the authors. doi.org/10.1177/0042... More to come as we approach the pub date.
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Manufacturing the urban: Situating manufactured housing and manufactured home communities in urban studies and charting a course for research - Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan, Andrew Rumbach, 2026
Manufactured housing (MH) provides a key source of affordable housing in the United States and elsewhere, including in Canada and Australia. In this editors’ in...
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As someone who has watched Flo Balogun play 2.5 soccer games: I would die for Flo Balogun
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Dylan Burkhardt @umhoops.com · 05/04/2026
NCAA 2026: Michigan vs. Arizona Recap umhoops.com/2026/04/05/n...
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NCAA 2026: Michigan vs. Arizona Recap | UM Hoops.com
Michigan took the sport’s biggest stage on Saturday night and did what it has done all year: dominate. The Wolverines have been the biggest and toughest team in college basketball all season long. Sat...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
HOLY SHIT UCONN
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Up-front costs (security deposits, fees, etc.) can be a significant strain on renters but a growing number of state and municipal governments have passed legislation intended to reduce up-front costs and regulate when they can be charged. @aherm.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/curbing...
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Curbing Fees: How States and Cities are Addressing Up-Front Rental Costs
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Renters are being squeezed long before they ever move in. Up-front rental costs (broker fees, deposits, first/last month rent, etc.) can easily reach thousands of dollars and, in high-cost markets like New York, can climb to nearly $13,000. @aherm.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/deposit...
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From Deposits to Fees, Renters Struggle with Up-Front Costs
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Going live in about 20 minutes! Tap in!
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Next Fri, Feb 20 @ 12:30 pm ET: @aherm.bsky.social @pjwhit.bsky.social discuss the unprecedented rise in home prices in rural areas during the pandemic, the types of communities where prices increased the most, and the effects on longtime residents. mailchi.mp/harvard/0212...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
After 21 years, I'm going to stop the daily posting to my blog Calculated Risk. Thanks to everyone! I'm still going to write the real estate newsletter and I've started a weekly economic newsletter to replace the blog (but just once a week). economicweekly.substack.com
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For many renters, programs like SNAP and Medicaid are critical to make ends meet. Funding cuts will exacerbate the consequences of unaffordable housing, especially for lower-income households, families with children, and those headed by an older adult. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/federal...
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Federal Assistance Programs Help Mitigate the Worst of the Housing Crisis
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 02/01/2026
The Big Ten has won the last two national titles and will have either Indiana or Oregon in the title game this year. Three times in four years the Big Ten has two semifinalists.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Soaring home prices, rising costs for homeowners and renters, and a new social housing movement: In case you missed them, our top blogs of this year examined persistent housing challenges in the US and opportunities for reforms. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/our-top...
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Our Top 10 Blogs of 2025
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Riordan Frost @riordanfrost.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Happy #MapMonday! Rural home prices soared after the pandemic, by 36% in non-metro counties and fully 47% in vacation counties from 2020–2023, per new work from my @harvard-jchs.bsky.social colleagues @aherm.bsky.social & @pjwhit.bsky.social. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
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Peyton Whitney @pjwhit.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
As a result, home values rose by 47 percent across rural vacation areas. And vacation counties in the West and Northeast saw prices rise even faster, by 51 percent apiece, as these regions hold many of the country’s rural mountain and beach communities.
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Peyton Whitney @pjwhit.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So happy to see this new paper with my colleague @aherm.bsky.social out there! We examine pandemic-era rural home price trends, finding that home prices grew rapidly across rural counties but appreciated fastest in vacation areas. In the paper we explore what was behind this phenomenon. 🧵
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What's striking is that vacation counties in every region had stronger price growth than other counties, driven entirely by pandemic demand.
This bar chart shows the percent change in typical home value from March 2020 to March 2023 in rural vacation counties compared to all other non-metro counties. Home values rose faster in vacation counties consistently. Nationally, home prices rose by 47 percent on average in the country’s vacation counties, but by 33 percent in all other non-metro counties. This trend is consistent in all four Census regions, with vacation county price growth ranging from 37 percent in the Midwest to 51 percent in the West and Northeast.
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Excited to release our new paper today with my colleague @pjwhit.bsky.social. We examine what types of rural areas had the fastest home price appreciation in the pandemic era. 🧵 www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
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Home Prices Have Risen Rapidly in Rural Vacation Areas
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Excited to release our new paper today with my colleague @pjwhit.bsky.social. We examine what types of rural areas had the fastest home price appreciation in the pandemic era. 🧵 www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
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Home Prices Have Risen Rapidly in Rural Vacation Areas
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A new paper finds that home prices in rural areas increased 36.1% between 2020-2023, but in counties with a high share of vacation and second homes, prices rose even faster at 46.8%. @aherm.bsky.social @pjwhit.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
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Home Prices Have Risen Rapidly in Rural Vacation Areas
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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that housing prices fell the most in metros where inventory of homes increased by a lot. via @harvard-jchs.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-pr...
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
so are Taylor and Travis going to make their first appearance as an engaged couple at the Nebraska-Cincinnati game at Arrowhead tomorrow
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Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Big day today. We’ll find out that Michigan, champions of the 2023 NCAA football season, are indeed still champions of the 2023 NCAA football season
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Pure Michigan ™
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I have obtained a leaked copy of the NCAA Report which, after a thorough investigation, has concluded that Michigan football is "extremely annoying."
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
High home prices & interest rates have pushed sales to a 30-year low; insurance and property taxes are soaring; high rents have left record numbers with cost burdens; and wildfires have highlighted the dangers of climate disasters. New report, livestream @ 2pm ET: mailchi.mp/harvard/son-...
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Gen Z represents 47% of recent US renters and as of 2023, there were 9.1 million Gen Z renter households, says @aherm.bsky.social. And they are opting for a new urban way of life: hunkering down in amenity-rich, high-design rental complexes that offer instant community. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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What Do Gen Z Renters Want? Amenities, Aesthetics and Their Own Mini Universe
We talked to four young people who are changing the game when it comes to renting.
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Jorge Escalante @escalante.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Here it is!! Just $9.99 plus tax. Also you get a little pizza cutter.
DiGiorino pizza from a vending machine.
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Tremendous piece. There are many valid critiques of American consumerism, but it's important to think of the ways it's defined us culturally and the benefits/detriments that come along with it. Should really have a positive plan when messing with the "bargain" described here.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This Wednesday, April 2: What is the impact of investor ownership of single-family rental homes? Our @aherm.bsky.social joins a @bpc-bipartisan.bsky.social conversation about the state of the single-family rental market, opportunities, and challenges. bipartisanpolicy.org/event/instit...
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones
The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A first-ever analysis of fire death rates in modern four-to-six-story buildings with only one stairway shows that residents are not at greater risk, and such buildings could provide much-needed housing. @pewtrusts.org www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
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Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record
Policymakers could increase the supply of multifamily housing in their states and localities by revising outdated building codes that require more than one stairway in small apartment buildings. If en...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok)
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Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I love it when there’s research on something in housing that I hadn’t really thought about before. Seems so obvious once someone says it out loud.
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Haven't seen much, if any work, examining who non-cash renters are. Was surprised by what we found so decided to blog about it!
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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
At last the two main immigration estimates have aligned. New CBO estimates for 2024 very close to Census estimates for year-to-mid-2024.
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Should update this, but markets in the Northeast and Midwest continue to face the largest inventory challenges. From a blog on the interplay between the existing and new home market: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/existin... www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
Figure shows a scatter plot for the changes in active inventory 2019-2023 and 2022-2023.
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yes, this. But also for even modest levels of fame.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Michigan follows up on their national championship by ending the season with victories over Ohio State and Alabama, presumably to repeat as national champions but I'm not checking
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Whitney Airgood-Obrycki @airbrycki.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
1. a record number of renter households (22.6 million) spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent and utilities each month. that includes 12.1 million who spend more than half of their incomes on housing, which is also a record high
chart shows the number of cost-burdened households is at a record high of 22.6 million while share is about 50 percent. the trend of worsening affordability has accelerated since the pandemic.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The number of cost-burdened renters has hit yet another record high, and affordability has worsened up and down the income scale, leaving low-income households with less than ever before. @airbrycki.bsky.social @aherm.bsky.social @sophiawedeen.bsky.social. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/renters...
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Renters’ Affordability Challenges Worsened Last Year
The number of cost-burdened renter households hit yet another record high last year, according to the most recent data from the American Community Sur
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Read the full paper written by @airbrycki.bsky.social @aherm.bsky.social @dmccue.bsky.social @samarascheckler.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-are...
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Recognizing Racial Diversity Within Households: Implications for Housing Research
Demographic research frequently categorizes households by race and ethnicity using the characteristics of a single person rather than considering all
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
An all-time high 42.9 million households were cost burdened last year (spent over 30% of their income on housing), and an additional 850,000 households had burdens, continuing a trend of deteriorating affordability. @aherm.bsky.social @airbrycki.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/housing...
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Housing Cost Burdens Climb to Record Levels (Again) in 2023
Housing affordability worsened again last year, as a record number of US households were cost burdened. According to our tabulations of the newly rele
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Bringing back @edsbs.bsky.social's words for Ohio State back in 2022 that could essentially be copied and pasted into 2024 @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/RJAAT...
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Fullcast After Dark - Week 13, Nov. 27, 2022
YouTube video by Douglas Reyes-Ceron
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Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Reminder: it is your civic duty to like all of my posts 🫡 🇺🇸
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Working from home has allowed some families to move to less expensive areas, but has caused home prices to rise. "They rose especially rapidly in more rural areas, in smaller markets, and in lower density counties of large metro areas," says @aherm.bsky.social. www.marketplace.org/2024/11/22/w...
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Work-from-home migration has changed the real estate market - Marketplace
A new report shows that nearly half of people working from home, who moved to a different state, made their decision based on housing.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The best part of the Aaron Rodgers/Jets story is that he got injured, and nothing good happened, and then he got healthy and nothing good happened then either
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