Daniel McCue, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Peyton Whitney
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February 24, 2025
Housing affordability is a growing concern for homeowners. While high home prices and mortgage interest rates have forced first-time buyers to stretch their budgets, longtime…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, Sophia Wedeen
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February 13, 2025
Restrictive zoning and NIMBY attitudes have left nearly a third of neighborhoods across the United States with few options for renters. The concentration of rental housing in…
The number of cost-burdened renter households hit yet another record high last year, according to the most recent data from the American Community Survey. In a new research…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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December 16, 2024
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…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Samara Scheckler
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December 12, 2024
As the US population grows more diverse, it is increasingly important to capture how different racial/ethnic groups fare in the housing market. But the standard way of…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Samara Scheckler
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December 12, 2024
Demographic research frequently categorizes households by race and ethnicity using the characteristics of a single person rather than considering all household members. In…
Peyton Whitney, Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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December 3, 2024
Housing affordability worsened again last year, as a record number of US households were cost burdened. According to our tabulations of the newly released 2023 American…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Nora Cahill, Peyton Whitney
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September 10, 2024
As programs that address the housing needs of middle-income renters become increasingly common in an environment of limited resources, it is crucial to understand the…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Nora Cahill, Peyton Whitney
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July 8, 2024
Housing affordability challenges have crept increasingly up the income scale and have left a record-high share of middle-income renter households with cost burdens. In…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Nora Cahill, Peyton Whitney
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July 1, 2024
In response to housing affordability challenges rapidly climbing the income scale, state and local governments have adopted policies and programs to explicitly address the…