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America's Rental Housing 2024

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • January 25, 2024

Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. This all-time high of 22.4 million…

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Cost Burdens Climb the Income Scale

January 25, 2024

Cost burdens are increasingly climbing the income scale...

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Low-Rent Supply Is Shrinking

January 25, 2024

The supply of low-cost rentals continues to shrink...

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Renter Cost-Burden Shares Remain High

January 25, 2024

Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights...

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Renter Cost Burdens Reach Record Levels

June 21, 2023

During the pandemic, the number of cost-burdened renters reached record levels.

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The Supply of Low-Cost Rentals Continues to Decline

June 21, 2023

The supply of low-cost rental units across the country continues to decline...

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Renters Were Particularly Burdened in the First Year of the Pandemic

June 22, 2022

In 2020, the nationwide share of households paying over a third of their income for housing climbed...

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America's Rental Housing 2022

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • January 21, 2022

Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates and driving up rents. However, lower-income households that took the brunt…

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Rents Are Rising in Most Markets, But Home Prices Are Rising Even Faster

January 21, 2022

Although rents were up sharply last year, their increase pales next to the climb in home prices.

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The highest shares of households behind on rent were in the South

January 21, 2022

In the third quarter of 2021, eight of the ten states with the highest shares of households in arrears were in the South.