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A review of recent research into the link between new housing production and apartment affordability offers new evidence that the rules of supply and demand do indeed apply to housing: Building more housing can slow rent growth in cities and free up more affordable vacant units in surrounding...
A new paper from the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies examines how the effects of desegregation-focused housing policies aimed at reducing disparities in neighborhood conditions may also reduce disparities in health outcomes. Specifically, the paper focuses on how such housing policies...
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...
A new analysis from Pew Charitable Trusts examines the link between elevated levels of homelessness in urban areas where rents are high, and homelessness rising when rents rise. After comparing homelessness and rent data in 2017 and 2022, Pew found that metro areas that saw fast-rising rents also...
A randomized control trial conducted in Vancouver found that providing unconditional cash transfers to unhoused individuals can significantly reduce their risk of homelessness. The researchers provided a one-time unconditional $7,500 cash transfer to individuals experiencing homelessness, which...
A new study from the Terner Center and Urban Institute demonstrates how U.S. housing and transportation policy encouraged sprawling, car-dependent housing development that has reinforced social and racial inequity while increasing carbon emissions. The study begins by providing a history of urban...
Analysis from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies continues showing that housing costs remain so high that many of the lowest-income households are simply unable to enter the housing market despite the slowing growth of housing costs. The authors posit it is unlikely that markets alone...
A new study published in the Milbank Quarterly examines messaging strategies to promote policies that advance racial equity. The authors aimed to study how various messaging strategies can influence support and mobilization for racial equity policy domains across a wide variety of social systems....
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...