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Record Homelessness Amid Ongoing Affordability Crisis

Riordan Frost • February 12, 2024

Homelessness spiked 12 percent (71,000 people) in 2023, with more than 650,000 people unhoused, the highest number recorded since data collection began in 2007. The US…

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Homelessness Rising Across the Country

January 25, 2024

The country is seeing the highest homelessness counts on record...

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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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Home Price-to-Income Ratio Reaches Record High

Alexander Hermann, Peyton Whitney • January 22, 2024

In 2022, the median sale price for a single-family home in the US was 5.6 times higher than the median household income, higher than at any point on record dating back to the…

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Older Adults With Cost Burdens at All-Time High

November 30, 2023

Cost burdens for older adults were at all all-time high in 2021.

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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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Financial Pressures Persist for Renters, Lower-Income Households, and Household of Color

June 22, 2022

Many households continue to be behind on mortgage or rent payments...

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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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Every State Has Lost Low-Rent Units Since 2011

January 21, 2022

Every state in the US has lost units that rent for under $600.

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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.