Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

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Representative Clyburn Proposes Renters Credit and Local Zoning Reforms

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…

Harvard Joint Center Evaluates Two Approaches for Measuring Housing Cost Burdens

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…

NLIHC Releases Out of Reach 2018 in Spanish

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…