Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

Last week NLIHC released The Road Ahead for Low-Income Renters, which summarizes research largely conducted during the pandemic on renters’ experiences and their needs going forward. The note summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, rent payment trackers, and research…

NLIHC released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2021 on July 14. The annual report highlights the mismatch between wages people earn and the price of decent rental housing in every state, metropolitan area, and county in the U.S. The report calculates the “Housing Wage” a full-time worker…

NLIHC will released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2021 on July 14. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and metropolitan area in the United States. Out of Reach 2021 will show the degree to which workers throughout the U.S. are struggling to afford…

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley published a report, “Paying the Rent in a Pandemic: Recent Trends in Rent Payments Among Affordable Housing Tenants in California.” The study examines the effects of the pandemic on renters’ ability to pay rents.…