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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University on June 16 published its report on The State of the Nation’s Housing 2021. Amid the recovery of the U.S. economy, housing inequalities persist. Those with stable jobs throughout the pandemic were able to build wealth through reduced…
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…
May 10, 2021
Renters and Homeowners Experienced Divergent Trends in Housing Expenditures in Recent Decades
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…