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Low-Wage Workers Face Affordable Housing Challenges

An analysis by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, titled Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems, finds the median full-time wage in low paying occupations is not high enough for a worker to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. The median annual…

Senate Bill Would Eliminate Nearly All Federal Housing Programs

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act” (S. 3047) that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into a state block grant. S. 3047 is the Senate companion to H.R. 5360, introduced by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH…

Affordable Rental Housing Lacking in 11 Largest Metropolitan Areas

A report by New York University’s Furman Center and Capital One titled Renting In America’s Largest Metropolitan Areas shows that growth in the rental housing stock in the 11 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. has not kept pace with the growth of the renter population. Rental markets have…