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NLIHC released on March 14 its annual report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes. This year’s report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.3 million affordable and available rental homes. As a result, nearly three-quarters of renters with extremely low incomes…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced new efforts on March 5 to increase housing supply. These actions include updated guidance for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, clarifications to the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program to simplify the process…
A study published recently in the Journal of Urban Affairs, “The Dynamics of Housing Cost Burden among Renters in the United States,” reveals that the share of renters experiencing housing cost burdens has grown over the last 50 years and that experiences of housing cost burden are becoming longer…
An article published in Social Science and Medicine, “The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000-2019,” finds that both high rent costs relative to household income (rent burden) and the threat of eviction were associated with increased mortality among renters…