Harvard’s 2026 Housing Report Signals a Demand-Side Reckoning as Household Growth Slows and Sales Freeze at 30-Year Lows

Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies warns that the housing market's central problem is shifting from a supply-and-price shock to a broad weakening of demand, as slowing job growth, collapsing immigration and stalled household formation combine to lock the market in place and concentrate wealth among those who already own. For years, the story of […]