A report released by the Center for Housing Policy on October 8 shows that many components of the typical household budget increased significantly faster than incomes between 1996 and 2006. During…
Americans 50 years old or older make up nearly a third of all mortgage delinquencies according to a new report from AARP Public Policy Institute. Of the 684,000 older American homeowners in…
A report released this week by the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) finds that hundreds of advertisements for rental units in New York City discriminate against households with housing subsidies or…
Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) has released a survey of states’ tax treatment of affordable housing. The findings show that tax law has a “very positive” influence on the…
Data released by the Census Bureau on August 26 suggest that 37.3 million Americans, or 12.5%, had incomes below the poverty level in 2007. The overall poverty rate was unchanged from 2006 but was…
In survey results released on August 10, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that, other than crime, New Orleans residents mention housing-related issues more than any other when asked about the…
In a study released this month assessing the state of rebuilding in Louisiana in the three years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, PolicyLink, a national research and action institute, reports that…
In a report released on July 31, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) finds higher rates of subprime lending among African American and Latino homeowners than among white homeowners…
Between 1985 and 2005, median monthly housing costs increased 128%, from $348 $793, while the percent of median family income spent on housing increased from 19% to 22% over the same period. This is…
HUD-assisted households are more likely to be female-headed, minority, older, and have lower levels of education when compared to all renters that were income-eligible for HUD rental assistance in…
In the Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress released this week, HUD estimates that 671,888 individuals were either living in emergency or transitional shelters or were on the street on…
African-Americans in Cleveland face foreclosure nearly four times as often as whites do. Similarly, those earning less than half of the median income (AMI) are more than twice as likely to be in…
