Damaged vehicles are a common sight in the wake of increasingly frequent weather and climate disasters. One recent estimate suggests that up to 138,000 vehicles were damaged…
Vehicles are the most commonly-owned nonfinancial asset in the United States (US) and represent a relatively high share of net worth for low-wealth households. Despite rising…
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…
Insurance has grabbed headlines lately for good reason. As home prices remain elevated at historically high levels, rising insurance premiums are also contributing to the…
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…