More than one in every ten renter households across the country has applied for federally funded emergency rental assistance (ERA), according to our analysis of recently…
Fully 43 percent of renter households worry about their home negatively affecting their or another occupant’s health, safety, and wellbeing according to a survey conducted…
To keep up with housing payments during the pandemic, renters tapped a wide range of financial resources, according to a new paper published as part of the Housing Crisis…
One sector that has experienced sustained growth in the housing industry has been home remodeling. Despite the home improvement industry’s traditional nimbleness in meeting…
Recent data show that in the last year, older households of color struggled to pay rent or mortgages at higher rates than white, non-Hispanic households. The US Census Bureau…
While the share of Americans moving each year has been falling for several decades, the start of the pandemic seemed to upend that trend. Media stories and blogs painted a…
Working from home appears to be an outcome of the pandemic that is here to stay. Nearly two years of experience has shown that it is possible, and perhaps even preferable,…
Despite improving economic conditions, millions of Americans – including a disproportionately large number of BIPOC and Latinx households and families with children – are at…
Strong growth in home improvement and maintenance expenditures is expected to continue over the coming year, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity…
Elizabeth Kneebone, Chris Herbert
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September 29, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound economic hardship for the nation’s renters; the most recent Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey found that nearly 8 million…