The number of cost-burdened renter households reached a new record high last year, affecting more households across income levels and leaving the lowest-income households with less left over than ever before.
Rising insurance premiums, due in large part to climate change-fueled hazards, are an affordability stressor for homeowners already facing historically high home prices.
A new paper explores how the standard method used in demographic research to assign the race/ethnicity of a household understates the diversity that exists within US households.
Joint Center for Housing Studies
of Harvard University
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The number of cost-burdened renter households has reached a new record high, further deepening the affordability challenge that accelerated during the pandemic. Across all income groups, rental affordability has continued to worsen as a growing share of household income has been devoted to rent and cost burden rates have risen.
Demographic research frequently categorizes households by race and ethnicity using the characteristics of a single person rather than considering all household members. In this paper, we explore how this common method of assigning race/ethnicity might understate the diversity of US households. We consider the race/ethnicity of all adult household members to estimate how prevalent multi-race households are, how they differ from single-race households, and what their housing outcomes are.
This paper by historian Alexander von Hoffman examines the nearly 100-year history of public housing in the US and the role the public sector might play in a new social housing system.
