In every state across the US, Black, Hispanic, and Native American households have lower homeownership rates than white households; likewise, Asian households were less…
Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Chris Herbert
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January 25, 2023
Using restricted-access data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey containing detailed geographic information about where respondents live, this paper assesses…
Renter households have been disproportionately harmed by the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this financial distress was also highly geographically…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann
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July 20, 2022
In 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large and growing share of renters were cost-burdened, according to a Center analysis of new experimental data from the…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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June 29, 2022
For the first time in a decade, housing cost burdens worsened significantly during the first year of the pandemic, according to our analysis of new data from the US Census…
More than one in every ten renter households across the country has applied for federally funded emergency rental assistance (ERA), according to our analysis of recently…
Rents across the US rose at an unprecedented pace in the second half of 2021, according to our new America’s Rental Housing 2022 report. As rental markets tightened and…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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February 12, 2022
The United States is in a housing affordability crisis, with nearly half of all renter households spending more than 30% of their incomes on rent and utilities each month.…
To keep up with housing payments during the pandemic, renters tapped a wide range of financial resources, according to a new paper published as part of the Housing Crisis…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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January 27, 2022
As has been well documented, the financial impact of the pandemic has disproportionally impacted renters, leading to high shares who have fallen behind on rent. Less well…