The murder of George Floyd has precipitated an outpouring of public protest across the country at a scale unlike any in recent decades. While the immediate focus of these…
Like everyone else around the country and the world, staff at the Joint Center for Housing Studies are adjusting, day by day, to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, both…
Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies appoints a number of senior fellows who have made distinguished contributions to research, policy, or industry and who help…
With the nation’s economy on sound footing and incomes on the rise, the number of people forming households in the United States has finally returned to a more normal pace.…
When the Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates the extent of housing affordability problems, we typically start by measuring the number and share of households paying…
Recently, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, we released our 30th anniversary State of the Nation’s Housing report. The milestone event included a panel…
A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to our 2017 America’s Rental Housing report, being released today. Fewer new…
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth for the US economy, according to the latest The State of the Nation’s Housing…
Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is just being released today, but it has already generated an amazing buzz which started with an…
Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics
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September 21, 2015
Earlier today, Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies released Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015–2025, which…