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…
Record-high housing unaffordability, the role of immigration in housing costs, construction industry challenges, and more: our most popular blogs of 2024 explored a range of…
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…
Rent growth has moderated recently from historically high pandemic-era levels, according to our newest report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024, as overheated markets…
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…
Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the result of record-low interest rates, the continued aging of millennials into prime…