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…
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…
A Freddie Mac report, Will the Hispanic Homeownership Gap Persist, examines the homeownership gap between white and Hispanic households. The current homeownership rate in the U.S. for Hispanics is 45…
Social Media: Our Homes, Our Voices is on Twitter (@OurHomesVoices). The hashtag #OurHomesOurVoices has already been retweeted over 200 times. The campaign also has a Facebook Groups page (https://…
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report on June 16. The report shows that 37% of American households - more than 43 million households —…
The National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association released U.S. Apartment Demand – A Forward Look, which estimates the future national demand for rental housing through…
Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2017). The State of the Nation’s Housing. Cambridge, MA: Author. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1kKwpkW
Source: NLIHC calculation of a national weighted-average Fair Market Rent; NLIHC calculation of affordable rent for average renter wage based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) QCEW, 2015 adjusted…
