The National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy released its 2016 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck. This year’s report focusses on housing affordability for five occupations found among…
The Brookings Institute presented an early screening of the eight-part documentary series, America Divided, on September 14. Executive producers, Norman Lear and Solly Granatstein, aim to renew the…
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…
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…
A publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), titled Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending Is Poorly Matched to Need, illustrates the extent to which federal housing expenditures…
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…
An article published by Housing Policy Debate titled “How Affordable is HUD Affordable Housing?” examines transportation costs for residents living in Section 8 multifamily properties. The study’s…
Mark Uh, a researcher at Trulia, finds that the homeownership rate has dropped 5% in the 50 largest metropolitan areas since the Great Recession, while the renter-occupancy rate has increased by 5%…
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…
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…
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…
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…
