The fuels we use in our homes have wide-reaching effects: nearly one-fifth of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions come from the residential sector. The debate over…
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…
In the US, millions of older adults struggle to afford both housing and the long-term care (LTC) services they increasingly require as they age, such as help with personal…
Our latest America’s Rental Housing report highlighted the first-of-its-kind 100 Percent Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts as an example of how…
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…
Homelessness spiked 12 percent (71,000 people) in 2023, with more than 650,000 people unhoused, the highest number recorded since data collection began in 2007. The US…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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January 25, 2024
Climbing rents in recent years propelled US cost burdens to staggering new heights: in 2022, half of all US renters were cost burdened. This all-time high of 22.4 million…
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…
Alexander Hermann, Peyton Whitney
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January 22, 2024
In 2022, the median sale price for a single-family home in the US was 5.6 times higher than the median household income, higher than at any point on record dating back to the…
