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NLIHC’s annual report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.3 million affordable and available rental homes. As a result, nearly three-quarters of renters with extremely low incomes are severely cost-burdened, spending more...
Up For Growth recently released its report on 2023 Housing Underproduction in the U.S.. Despite that housing availability increased in the top 25 major metropolitan areas for the first time in nearly a decade, the report’s findings indicate a deepening crisis resulting from a century of...
The Harvard Joint Center of Housing Studies has published the State of the Nation’s Housing 2023 report. The annual report notes that millions of households are priced out of homeownership even as the pace of home price growth appreciation slowed. Similarly, the rate of rent growth declined in 2023...
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has published its annual Out of Reach report, which quantifies the dramatic unaffordability of housing across the nation. According to the report, a worker must make an hourly wage of $23.67 to afford a modest one-bedroom rental home, and at least...
Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty, a new report from Child Trends, found that housing assistance played a significant role in reducing childhood poverty. The report examines the effects of social safety net programs on the Supplemental Poverty Measure from 1993 – 2019. Overall,...
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) released a report last week on how housing finance agencies (HFAs) are filling funding gaps. The urgent need for more affordable housing units has been exacerbated by market conditions, a growing shortfall of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (...
Researchers from Tulane University and the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative examine a new study on whether access to knowledge about eviction court procedures affected tenants’ eviction case outcomes. The quasi-experimental study focuses on tenant outcomes in eviction proceedings...
Freddie Mac recently published a study titled Risks and Impacts of Expiring LIHTC Restrictions and the Outcomes of Properties that Exit. Specifically, the study examines what happens to a property after it leaves the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program and therefore is no longer subject...
On June 22, the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies released the State of the Nation’s Housing 2022 Report. Major themes included the soaring costs of housing coupled with rising demand, and high construction levels in response.
Apartment rents were up 12%...
The Coalition for the Homeless annual report, State of the Homeless, grades both New York City and State on their abilities to meet the needs of unsheltered individuals, offer access to low-barrier shelters and psychiatric services, and provide affordable housing options for extremely low-income...