Study Questions Whether Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Lower Household Transportation Costs
A study published in Housing Policy Debate by Michael Smart and Nicholas Klein, “Complicating the Story of Location Affordability,” questions whether families in transit-accessible neighborhoods…
Study Finds Economic Recovery Alone Does Not Solve the Shortage of Affordable Housing
A study by Jerry Anthony, “Economic Prosperity and Housing Affordability in the United States: Lessons from the Booming 1990s,” published in Housing Policy Debate explores whether economic growth…
Housing Costs Leave Low Income Renters with Too Few Resources for Other Necessities
An article by Jeff Larrimore and Jenny Schuetz published by the Federal Reserve, Assessing the Severity of Rent Burden on Low-Income Families, found that the lowest income renters, after paying their…
Workers in Many Healthcare Occupations Cannot Afford Housing
The National Housing Conference released its 2017 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck on September 27. This year’s report examines housing affordability for healthcare workers in 203 metropolitan areas.…
HUD Reports that 8.3 Million Very Low Income Households Have Worst Case Housing Needs
HUD published on August 9 its Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress, showing that 8.3 million unassisted very low income households in America spend more than half of their income on…
Study Finds Airbnb Increases Rents
A new study by Kyle Barron, Edward Kung, and Davide Prosperpio, The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability: Evidence from Airbnb, finds that a 10% increase in Airbnb listings in a neighborhood…
Spring Shelterforce Examines the Concept of Housing Affordability
The spring 2017 issue of Shelterforce features a series of articles that examine the standard measure of housing affordability that a household should spend no more than 30% of its income on housing…
Renters Who Move Pay Higher Rents
A report from Zillow, How to Save on Rent: Don’t Move, finds that renters who renew their lease typically pay less rent than those who move. In 2015, renters who moved in the past year paid 47% more…
NLIHC Releases Out of Reach 2017: National Housing Wage is $21.21 per Hour
Out of Reach 2017: The High Cost of Housing NLIHC released Out of Reach 2017 on June 8. The report’s Housing Wage is the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest apartment while…
Minimum Wage Increases Would Improve Housing Affordability and Increase Tax Revenue
A report by the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement and the Labor Education Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on…
Massive Shortage of Affordable and Available Housing for America’s Lowest Income Households
NLIHC released its new report, The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, on March 2. The report finds a shortage of 7.4 million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income (ELI)…