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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…

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…

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…

The wave of proposals for a US version of social housing is impressive, unrelenting, and coming at us in real time. It reflects the enormous frustration with rising rents and…

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…

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…

Lately there’s been a lot of excitement in US housing policy circles about the idea of social housing. Inspired by what they have seen in Europe, advocates of social housing…

Public housing is the oldest and largest supplier of permanently affordable housing in the US, but it has often been left out of the conversation about a new “social housing…

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…