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Consumer Reports

How Millennials Can Achieve Financial Security Without Owning a Home

Instead of building equity, many millennials are renting or living with their parents. In 2018 more than 1 in 3 renter households was headed by someone under age 35 vs. just 1 in 10 homeowner households, according to recent research by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

The New York Times

A Luxury Apartment Rises in a Poor Neighborhood. What Happens Next?

New apartments today overwhelmingly target higher-income renters. The median rent for a new unit is now $1,620 a month, 78 percent higher than the median rent nationwide, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (the gulf between those figures has been widening).

The New York Times

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People have to realize that homelessness is connected to housing prices. They have to accept it’s hypocritical to say that you don’t like density but are worried about climate change. They have to internalize the lesson that if they want their children to have a stable financial future, they have to make space. They are going to have to change.

Boston.com

At what point does a home become too big to sell?

A lot of us would welcome a little more space at home: that’s partly why Americans spent $30 billion on room additions and exterior add-ons like decks, porches, and garages in 2017, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

CBS News

America is increasingly a nation of renters, not homeowners

Many Americans, already struggling to find a home they can afford to buy, are increasingly at pains to find a place they can afford to rent. Tightening that squeeze: An influx of middle-class renters that is pushing up prices in much of the country.

Financial Times

Why big investors are buying up American trailer parks

Over the past decade, the cost of shelter has risen sharply compared with everything else. Last year, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that 47 per cent of people who rent in America are “cost-burdened”, meaning they spend more than 30 per cent of their income on housing.