Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

The Urban Institute released on August 11 an overview report that examines the current living conditions and well-being of nearly 200 households from Madden/Wells, one of Chicago’s largest public housing complexes that was redeveloped using HOPE VI funds as part of the Chicago Housing Authority’s (…

A comprehensive study of combined housing and transportation costs released this week by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) reports that only 39% of American communities are affordable for families when both transportation and housing costs are considered together.  The analysis…

A study released in December reports that housing cost burdens for households have increased, despite declines in housing prices across the nation. The report, produced by the Center for Housing Policy (CHP), shows that the proportion of working households spending more than 50% of their monthly…

Of Chicago’s 1.3 million renters, over half are paying more than one-third of their incomes on housing, the Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) reports in a paper released September 15. The report, which contains data from the Census Bureau, HUD as well as data collected from the MTO’s renter…