Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

Diminishing Affordability – Inescapable, a report from the Multifamily Research Center at Freddie Mac, finds the percentage of multifamily rental units affordable to very low-income (VLI) households…

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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) released the State of the Nation’s Housing Report on June 24. The report’s authors found a continued shortage of affordable housing…

Memo: Join Webinar with Rep. Sylvia Garcia, House Votes on Housing Spending Bill, and More

NLIHC released on June 18 the 30th anniversary edition of its report Out of Reach, which documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing throughout the U.S. The…

NLIHC released a Spanish edition of its report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2019 (La Brecha: La Escasez de Viviendas Asequibles 2019) on June 21. The report shows the shortage or surplus…

Memo: POV – 30 Years Out of Reach, and More

Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tim Scott (R-SC), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced legislation on June 12 to support state and local governments that wish to include…

Memo: When the Cruelty is the Point

Memo: Point of View - HUD “Mixed-Status” Immigration Rule is Based on a Lie

A report by the Brookings Institution, Cost, crowding, commuting? Housing stress on the middle class, finds that middle-income households in the U.S. on average fare well on three measures of housing…

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