Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

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Severe Cost Burdens Decline for Low to Moderate Income Working Households

The National Housing Conference released their annual Housing Landscape 2016 report, which examines housing affordability trends for low to moderate income (LMI) working households. LMI working households are defined as those with at least one household member working on average at least 20 hours a…

New Study Looks at the Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation

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…

Report: Housing Affordability for U.S. Working Households Declines

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…