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Diminishing Affordability – Inescapable, a report from the Multifamily Research Center at Freddie Mac, finds the percentage of multifamily rental units affordable to very low-income (VLI) households, those with incomes less than half of their area median income, fell from 56% in 2010 to 39% in 2017…
July 1, 2019
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Releases Annual State of the Nation’s Housing Report
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released the State of the Nation’s Housing Report on June 24. The report’s authors found a continued shortage of affordable housing supply particularly for the lowest-income households and an increase in homelessness after years of…
June 24, 2019
NLIHC Releases "Out of Reach 2019": National Housing Wage is Nearly $23 Per Hour for a Modest Two-Bedroom Rental
NLIHC released on June 18 the 30th anniversary edition of its report Out of Reach, which documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing throughout the U.S. The national Housing Wage - the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a rental home at HUD’s…
NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019 (La Brecha: La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles 2019) on June 21. The report shows the shortage or surplus of rental homes affordable and available to different income groups in every state and the largest…