Our latest report, Improving America’s Housing 2025, finds significant disparities in remodeling spending. What owners spend on both professional and DIY home improvement…
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…
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…
In March of 2024, Senators Fetterman (D-PA) and Lummis (R-WY) introduced the Whole-Home Repairs Act of 2024 to establish a nationwide pilot program to assist eligible…
Carlos Martín, Alan Mallach, Todd Swanstrom, Austin Harrison, Sophia Wedeen
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August 27, 2024
The deterioration and loss of America’s housing is a threat to the health, safety, security, and financial well-being of millions of low-income residents. Researchers link…
Lower-income renters continued to face extraordinary financial hardships in the first half of 2024, as the competing costs of food, energy, and housing made it nearly…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, Sophia Wedeen
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June 17, 2024
Restrictive zoning and NIMBY attitudes have left nearly a third of neighborhoods across the country with few options for renters. The concentration of rental housing in some…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, Sophia Wedeen
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June 17, 2024
Nearly a third of neighborhoods across the US have few options for renter households, limiting where they can live and potentially perpetuating patterns of racial and…
Our latest America’s Rental Housing report points to an escalating affordability crisis. In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid increase in rents combined with…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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February 20, 2024
In our recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, we noted that rental markets are finally cooling after substantial overheating. This slowdown in rent growth…