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NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019 (La Brecha: La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles 2019) on June 21. The report shows the shortage or surplus of rental homes affordable and available to different income groups in every state and the largest…
Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tim Scott (R-SC), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced legislation on June 12 to support state and local governments that wish to include manufactured housing as an affordable housing solution when applying for federal funding.
The “HUD…
A report by the Brookings Institution, Cost, crowding, commuting? Housing stress on the middle class, finds that middle-income households in the U.S. on average fare well on three measures of housing stress: affordability, crowding (home size), and commute times. The report notes some exceptions,…
A study published in Housing Policy Debate, “Household Energy Costs and the Housing Choice Voucher Program: Do Utility Allowances Pay the Bills?,” examined the gap between utility allowances in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program and actual utility bills for electricity. Utility bills exceeded…