The persistently wide homeownership rate gaps between Black, Hispanic, and white households mean that households of color are disproportionately excluded from the many…
Despite an early surge in moves when the COVID-19 pandemic began, a shrinking share of Americans moved over the past two years, a pattern consistent with declines in mobility…
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has faced numerous hurdles since its creation in 1968, not the least of which was the increasingly poor mismatch between its…
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…
As the rise of companies like Zillow and Rocket Mortgage illustrate, big data and data analytics have significantly changed how people search for and finance housing. The…
Last week I was invited to testify by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee in its first hearing of the new Congress on “The State of Housing 2023.” I…
In every state across the US, Black, Hispanic, and Native American households have lower homeownership rates than white households; likewise, Asian households were less…
In 2021, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of renters were cost-burdened, spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing. In addition,…
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of November 2021 included a $3.5 billion one-time infusion into the federal Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). With…
