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Renters’ Responses to Financial Stress During the Pandemic

Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Ben Demers, Solomon Greene, Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Sophia Wedeen • April 8, 2021

The COVID pandemic has had a particularly large impact on the financial well-being of renters in the US, and over the past year millions have struggled to pay rent. While…
Working Papers

The Rent Eats First: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the US

Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen • January 13, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, renters in the United States were facing a housing affordability crisis. Nearly a quarter of renter households were spending more than half…
Reports

America's Rental Housing 2020

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • January 31, 2020

Despite slowing demand and the continued strength of new construction, rental markets in the US remain extremely tight. Vacancy rates are at decades-long lows, pushing up…
Reports

America's Rental Housing 2017

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • December 14, 2017

  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. Fewer new renter…
Reports

The State of the Nation's Housing 2014

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies • June 26, 2014

With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013. But when interest rates notched up at mid-year, momentum…