Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic as interest rates fell to record lows, the large cohort of millennials aged increasingly…
Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the result of record-low interest rates, the continued aging of millennials into prime…
In the US, millions of older adults struggle to afford both housing and the long-term care (LTC) services they increasingly require as they age, such as help with personal…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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February 7, 2024
However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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February 7, 2024
In the United States, rural areas face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. While far from homogenous, rural areas nevertheless tend to share some similar…
Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Chadwick Reed
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January 23, 2024
Manufactured housing holds promise as an affordable form of housing that could expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households. This report reviews…
Alexander Hermann, Peyton Whitney
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January 22, 2024
In 2022, the median sale price for a single-family home in the US was 5.6 times higher than the median household income, higher than at any point on record dating back to the…
The number of cost-burdened households in the US rose dramatically during the pandemic and in 2022 reached levels not seen since 2011, according to our analysis of recently-…
After home prices fell during the latter half of 2022 and markets across the country cooled, prices have been increasing nationally in 2023. Indeed, according to our analysis…
Despite the cooling housing market, inventories of existing homes for sale have barely budged from all-time lows experienced during the pandemic. As a result, homebuyers have…