Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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Housing Affordability & Cost Burden Resources
A study published in Housing Policy Debate by Michael Smart and Nicholas Klein, “Complicating the Story of Location Affordability,” questions whether families in transit-accessible neighborhoods spend significantly less on transportation. The study shows that income, wealth, and household…
A study by Jerry Anthony, “Economic Prosperity and Housing Affordability in the United States: Lessons from the Booming 1990s,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores whether economic growth improves housing affordability. His research finds that the economic prosperity of the 1990s did not…
An article by Jeff Larrimore and Jenny Schuetz published by the Federal Reserve, Assessing the Severity of Rent Burden on Low-Income Families, found that the lowest income renters, after paying their rent, do not have enough income remaining for other basic expenses.
In 2015, according to the…
The National Housing Conference released its 2017 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck on September 27. This year’s report examines housing affordability for healthcare workers in 203 metropolitan areas. A number of healthcare occupations do not pay sufficient wages for workers to afford their housing.…