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…
Renter households have been disproportionately harmed by the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this financial distress was also highly geographically…
When President Biden first proposed his Build Back Better legislation, it included $300 billion in housing investments. While that legislative package never passed, portions…
After several years of double-digit gains, expenditures for improvements and repairs to the owner-occupied housing stock are expected to grow only modestly in 2023, according…
As rising interest rates cooled demand for housing in 2022, new data on household growth is helping provide a better picture of just how hot demand had been between 2019 and…
