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Marketplace

What to know about affordable housing

"Just 1 in 4 income-eligible renters receives rental assistance, and with nearly 20 million cost-burdened renter households there just isn't enough support to go around... That's part of why we're in the current crisis, that incomes just aren't high enough to keep up with the rent increases and there just isn't enough support" says Whitney Airgood-Obrycki.

Boston.com

Water damage riles condo owners in Plymouth

“Beyond six years, it is hard to probe whether the occupancy or behavior of the occupants isn’t impacting the system. It’s a little harder to find causality,’’ said Carlos Martín, project director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Rent

From 1990-2019, the US added 13.3 million rental units. However, the number of those renting at the lowest end of the market fell by 3.7 million.