Lower-income homeowners spend large shares of their incomes on home improvements and maintenance, but spend significantly less per household compared to higher-income…
Pandemic-related income losses, rising housing costs, and inflation in the cost of basic necessities have put a comfortable standard of living out of reach for many Americans…
According to the Center’s recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2022, the loss of low-cost rental units is making it increasingly difficult for low- and moderate…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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February 12, 2022
The United States is in a housing affordability crisis, with nearly half of all renter households spending more than 30% of their incomes on rent and utilities each month.…
Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates and driving up rents, according to our new America’s Rental Housing…
Between 1989 and 2016 the share of homeowners 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled, and the outstanding loan-to-value ratio tripled from 13 to 39 percent. Older…
Almost 200 localities in all six New England states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont—use inclusionary zoning programs to help spur…
Downpayment assistance has, of late, received an increasing amount of attention among US policymakers. President Biden proposed a nationwide downpayment tax credit during his…
In this paper, Benjamin Ward makes a set of recommendations intended to help policymakers design a scalable nation-wide downpayment assistance program in the United States.…
Surging home prices have made it even more difficult for millions of renters to become homeowners across the US. In nearly half of the largest 100 US metro areas, the income…