Alexander Hermann, Nora Cahill
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February 10, 2025
An overlooked group in discussions of rental affordability are households who occupy a unit without payment of rent. Non-cash renters fall into one of three broad categories…
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, Daniel McCue, Peyton Whitney
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October 15, 2024
The American Community Survey (ACS) is one of the most important resources for housing researchers in the country, providing a wealth of information on housing and households…
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…
Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic as interest rates fell to record lows, the large cohort of millennials aged increasingly…