HUD released The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress this past week. A total of 549,928 individuals were homeless on a single night in January 2016, representing a 3%…
The U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) on September 15. The data show that there were 43.7 million renter households in 2015. Of these renter households,…
Source: Boeing, Geoff and Waddell, Paul (2016) New Insights into Rental Markets across the United States: Web Scraping Big Data to Analyze Craigslist. University of California, Berkeley. http…
Notes: The Two-Bedroom Housing Wage is the estimated full-time hourly wage a household would need to earn to afford a two-bedroom apartment at a HUD-estimated Fair Market Rent while spending no…
NLIHC released its Out of Reach 2016 report on May 25. This year the national two-bedroom Housing Wage, the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment…
Source: Immergluck, D., Carpenter, A. & Lueders, A. (2016.) Declines in Low-Cost Rented Housing Units in Eight Large Southeastern Cities. Atlanta, GA: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Available…
Source: Austensten, M. et al. (2016). State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods in 2015. New York, NY: NYU Furman Center. http://bit.ly/1TFCj8v
Source: Drehobl, A., & Ross, L. (2016). Lifting the high energy burden in America’s largest cities: How energy efficiency can improve low income and underserved communities. Washington, D.C.:…
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (2016). Chart Book: Cuts in Federal Assistance Have Exacerbated Families’ Struggle to Afford Housing. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy…
