Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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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…
NLIHC released an interactive Housing Instability and COVID-19 Map, which helps visualize the extent of the need for housing assistance for low-income renters and people experiencing homelessness throughout the country. The map shows for each U.S. county the number of renters who are experiencing…