Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

Lawmakers, advocates, and residents urged improvements to the quality and affordability of manufactured housing communities (MHCs). MHAction, a national organization and movement of manufactured home community residents from across the U.S. held a webinar to announce the release of a new report…

The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution released “A Comparison of Renters and Homeowners in Recent Decades,” examining trends in the housing market over the last several decades, differences in the share of income dedicated to housing costs by tenure, and the greater housing insecurity…

The National Equity Atlas and the Right to the City Alliance have released a new Rent Debt Dashboard, which currently estimates that 5,744,000 households are behind on rent and that the total estimated rent debt is $19.75 billion. On that estimate, the average owed by a delinquent household would…

NLIHC released the Spanish-language edition of its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes (La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles), which finds that extremely low-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of nearly 7 million affordable and available rental homes. Only 37 affordable and…