The combined increases in home prices and mortgage interest rates over the past year have made buying the typical home much more expensive across the country, as reported in…
According to the Center’s recently released report, America’s Rental Housing 2022, the loss of low-cost rental units is making it increasingly difficult for low- and moderate…
The nation’s largest cities are at the forefront of the battle against high housing costs. In efforts described in our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report and in…
A growing number of low-income renters are competing for a shrinking number of low-rent units. This is the basic conclusion of our new analysis of rental markets which…
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…
Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue
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September 25, 2018
The 30-percent of income standard is a widely used and accepted measure of the extent of housing affordability problems across the country. While simple and easy to implement…
The number of renters paying 30 percent or more of their income on housing decreased in 2015 by 240,000 households, reversing an eight-year trend of annual increases in the…
Since the downturn, home prices for the US as a whole have been undergoing a strong recovery and are now approaching their former peak from the mid-2000s. However, the…
Home prices are rising, rents are up, and units available for rent or sale are few and far between. Detailing these trends, our 2016 State of the Nation’s Housing report once…
As mentioned in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that it will lower costs of government mortgages by reducing the…
