The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and…
Source: Wolff, E. (2014). Household wealth trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What happened over the Great Recession? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from http…
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…
An analysis by Zillow, titled Zillow Rent Index by Tier: Low-End Demand, High-End Supply, finds that the cost of low-rent apartments rose faster than rental costs in general over the past year in…
Source: La Jeunesse, E. (2016). Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2aHf3vY
The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released its third annual research report titled 2016 PAHRC Report: Housing is a Foundation. The report finds that vulnerable…
By Diane Yentel, NLIHC President and CEO
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
During such a pivotal election year, and at a time when the pervasive lack of affordable housing is gaining…
A study published in Housing Policy Debate titled “Housing for an Aging Population” by Sewin Chan and Ingrid Gould Ellen at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service finds a…
A report from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley examines the relationship between housing production, affordability, and displacement in the San…
Source: NLIHC Tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS Data.
Note: Severely cost-burdened households pay more than 50% of their income on rent and utilities.
AMI = Area Median Income.
