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NLIHC released its annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, which finds that extremely low-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7 million affordable and available rental homes. Only 36 affordable and available homes existed for every 100 extremely low-income renter…
Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced the “Pathway to Stable and Affordable Housing for All Act” (H.R. 5813) in the House on February 7. A companion to the Senate bill introduced by Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) in November 2019 (S. 2946; see Memo, 11/25/19), the bill would effectively end…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released America’s Rental Housing 2020, providing a comprehensive look at current challenges in the rental housing market. Among other things, the report highlights the loss of low-cost rental housing over the past decade and a growth in…
Prosperity Now released its 2020 Scorecard, an advocacy tool that compiles data on financial assets and income, employment, homeownership and housing, health care, and education by state, race, and gender. Some data are available for local jurisdictions and congressional districts. The Scorecard…