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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…

Rising numbers of homeowners are burdened by high housing costs. That is the main finding in our new research brief, which explores the most recent American Community Survey…

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…

Rising housing costs are burdening millions of low-income homeowners, a growing trend that was one of the main storylines from this year’s State of the Nation’s Housing…

The combined increases in home prices and mortgage interest rates over the past year have made buying the typical home much more expensive across the country, as reported in…

According to the Center’s recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2022, the loss of low-cost rental units is making it increasingly difficult for low- and moderate…

The nation’s largest cities are at the forefront of the battle against high housing costs. In efforts described in our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report and in…

A growing number of low-income renters are competing for a shrinking number of low-rent units. This is the basic conclusion of our new analysis of rental markets which…

When the Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates the extent of housing affordability problems, we typically start by measuring the number and share of households paying…

The 30-percent of income standard is a widely used and accepted measure of the extent of housing affordability problems across the country. While simple and easy to implement…