As we noted in our most recent report, America’s Rental Housing 2024, the number of cost-burdened renters hit a record high in 2022 as half of all households spent more than…
Riordan Frost, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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March 14, 2024
Many cities experienced an urban renaissance as millennials came of age in the 2000s and early 2010s and reshaped neighborhoods in what came to be known as the ‘back to the…
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…
Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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February 7, 2024
In the United States, rural areas face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. While far from homogenous, rural areas nevertheless tend to share some similar…
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…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Peyton Whitney
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April 17, 2023
More than half the nation’s renters—including two thirds of low-income renters—report that they have been very stressed by sharp increases in both rents and the price of…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Peyton Whitney
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April 11, 2023
Renter household incomes fell in the first two years of the pandemic as rents increased, leaving many renters with little money to spend on all their other needs. In fact,…
Last year when we released America’s Rental Housing 2022, the rental market was rebounding rapidly. Rents had soared to record highs as vacancy rates dropped to historic lows…
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…
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…