Lisa Sturtevant

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Lisa A. Sturtevant is executive director of the Center for Housing Policy and vice president for research for the National Housing Conference.
Housing

Are Millennials Different, or Just Delaying Homeownership?

Big, diverse, and a little bit different, the Millennial generation is often cast as the solution to—or the cause of—many of America’s housing challenges. But Millennials probably aren’t as principal to understanding U.S. housing market conditions as the sheer amount of media coverage may lead us to believe. The opportunities available to Gen Xers and […]

Housing

Housing Affordability Is Our Problem, Not Their Problem

I had the opportunity to participate in a recent webcast about the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ report, State of the Nation’s Housing, where I talked about the nation’s […]

Housing

Good Local Housing Policy is Good Economic Development Policy

We hear a lot about the importance of housing to the nation’s economy, and recently, the news has been about how a slowing housing market is contributing to slower overall […]