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Housing Affordability & Cost Burden Resources
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced new efforts on March 5 to increase housing supply. These actions include updated guidance for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, clarifications to the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program to simplify the process…
A study published recently in the Journal of Urban Affairs, “The Dynamics of Housing Cost Burden among Renters in the United States,” reveals that the share of renters experiencing housing cost burdens has grown over the last 50 years and that experiences of housing cost burden are becoming longer…
An article published in Social Science and Medicine, “The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000-2019,” finds that both high rent costs relative to household income (rent burden) and the threat of eviction were associated with increased mortality among renters…
A study published in Housing Studies, “Housing cost, consistency, and context and their relationship to health,” examines the relationship between renters’ health and three of the four “C’s” of housing insecurity: cost, consistency, and context. The authors find that the inability of renters to pay…