Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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NLIHC will released Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2020 tomorrow, July 14. The report compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and metropolitan area in the United States. Out of Reach 2020 will show the degree to which, even before the onset of the COVID-19 public…
HUD published on June 19 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2019 Report to Congress, showing that 7.7 million unassisted very low-income renter households in America spend more than half of their income on housing, live in severely inadequate housing, or both. This represents an improvement from the…
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…