Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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August 4, 2022
Nearly a third of neighborhoods across the country have few options for renters, and these places are disproportionately suburban, higher-income, and have a higher share of…
The Emergency Rental Assistance program provides unprecedented support for renters facing hardships who are unable to pay their rent or utilities. While the implicit…
Since it was enacted at the end of 2020, the federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program has helped millions of renters get caught up on rent payments. An analysis I…
More than one in every ten renter households across the country has applied for federally funded emergency rental assistance (ERA), according to our analysis of recently…
Fully 43 percent of renter households worry about their home negatively affecting their or another occupant’s health, safety, and wellbeing according to a survey conducted…
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…
About 40 percent of the nation’s occupied rental stock, representing 17.6 million units, are located in areas that will experience substantial annual losses from increasingly…
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…
Rents across the US rose at an unprecedented pace in the second half of 2021, according to our new America’s Rental Housing 2022 report. As rental markets tightened and…
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.…