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Representative James E. Clyburn (D-SC) introduced on October 9 the “Housing Opportunity, Mobility and Equity (HOME) Act of 2018” (H.R. 7050), the House version of the Senate legislation (S.3342) proposed by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ).
The ambitious proposal would help to bridge the widening gap…
A paper from the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS), Measuring Housing Affordability: Assessing the 30 Percent of Income Standard, compares two different measures of housing cost burdens: the common 30% housing cost-to-income ratio and the residual income approach. The paper…
A report by the Terner Center at the University of California at Berkeley examined the affordable housing implications of California’s “Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008” (SB 375). The goal of SB 375 is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while meeting the state’s housing…
NLIHC released a Spanish-language version of Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2018 on June 28. The report, Fuera de Alcance: El Alto Costo de La Vivienda 2018, compares rents and wages nationally and in every state, country, and city in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. The report shows that both…