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Housing Affordability & Cost Burden Resources
July 6, 2020
Housing Cost Burden for Low-Income Renters Has Increased Significantly in Last Two Decades
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that details changes in renter households and affordability from 2001 to 2017. The report, As More Households Rent, the Poorest Face Affordability and Housing Quality Challenges, describes rental housing trends, including rental…
An article published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, “Rental Assistance and Adult Self-Rated Health,” found associations between how adults rated their own health and the receipt of rental assistance. Compared to adults receiving HUD rental assistance, those on the…
A research note from the National Multifamily Housing Council, “Do Different Renters Face Different Affordability Challenges?” analyzed housing affordability across distinct groups of renters. One objective of the research was to see whether renters with college degrees or two-income households…
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) introduced a new tool, the Rent Payment Tracker, which collects weekly data from 13.4 million apartments about when rent payments have been made. They report a 12 percentage-point decrease since last month in the share of renter households in these…