Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing offers significantly reduced construction costs compared to conventional…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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February 20, 2024
In our recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, we noted that rental markets are finally cooling after substantial overheating. This slowdown in rent growth…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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January 25, 2024
Our new report America’s Rental Housing 2024 examines the state of rental housing in the US, including the critical affordability and policy challenges facing the nation…
Earlier this month, Berks County, Pennsylvania was among the first jurisdictions in the state to open its doors to eligible households in need of basic home repairs.…
Across the US, homeownership is becoming increasingly inaccessible for low- and moderate-income households. While land costs are a driving force in this trend, construction…
The supply of low-cost rentals fell by 3.9 million units over the last decade, according to our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report. As a new interactive tool (Figure…
Rents in more than three-quarters of the nation’s 150 large markets increased rapidly in early 2022, growing by 10 percent or more year-over-year according to our latest…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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August 4, 2022
Nearly a third of neighborhoods across the country have few options for renters, and these places are disproportionately suburban, higher-income, and have a higher share of…
Lower-income homeowners spend large shares of their incomes on home improvements and maintenance, but spend significantly less per household compared to higher-income…
About 40 percent of the nation’s occupied rental stock, representing 17.6 million units, are located in areas that will experience substantial annual losses from increasingly…