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CNN

Time is running out for America's most vulnerable renters

An eviction crisis isn't new for the United States. Even before the pandemic, renters of color were already more likely than white renters to have high rent burdens, to be threatened with eviction and to experience homelessness.

Houston Chronicle

Home ownership increasingly out of reach of region’s renters

Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, also called for increasing the supply of affordable housing. “It means we have to think about ways to expand the ability of the private sector to reach those people who are in the middle of the income distribution” — for example, looking at regulatory barriers that make it difficult for tiny homes to be built in Houston.

TIME

How Eviction Moratoriums Are Hurting Small Landlords

In 2016, nearly half of all renter households were spending at least 30% of their incomes on rent, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Now, with more than 20 million people still out of work, the proportion of people struggling to pay each month is almost certainly higher—especially among lower-income earners, who have disproportionately been affected by recent layoffs.

The New York Times

Tenants Largely Stay Current on Rent, for Now

Despite a 14.7 percent unemployment rate and millions of new jobless claims each week, rent collections at many buildings are only slightly below where they were last year, when the economy was booming.

The Nation

It’s Time to Cancel the Rent

A recent report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies warned that at least 10 million people in the United States spend over 50 percent of their income on rent.