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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.…
HUD published on August 9 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress, showing that 8.3 million unassisted very low income households in America spend more than half of their income on their housing, live in severely substandard housing, or both. The number of households experiencing this…
A new study by Kyle Barron, Edward Kung, and Davide Prosperpio, The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability: Evidence from Airbnb, finds that a 10% increase in Airbnb listings in a neighborhood leads to a 0.39% increase in rents. Airbnb’s impact is stronger in neighborhoods with more absentee…
The spring 2017 issue of Shelterforce features a series of articles that examine the standard measure of housing affordability that a household should spend no more than 30% of its income on housing costs. Several articles in the publication explore the 30% standard’s strength and weaknesses, and…