Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates and driving up rents, according to our new America’s Rental Housing…
Between 1989 and 2016 the share of homeowners 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled, and the outstanding loan-to-value ratio tripled from 13 to 39 percent. Older…
Almost 200 localities in all six New England states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont—use inclusionary zoning programs to help spur…
Downpayment assistance has, of late, received an increasing amount of attention among US policymakers. President Biden proposed a nationwide downpayment tax credit during his…
In this paper, Benjamin Ward makes a set of recommendations intended to help policymakers design a scalable nation-wide downpayment assistance program in the United States.…
Surging home prices have made it even more difficult for millions of renters to become homeowners across the US. In nearly half of the largest 100 US metro areas, the income…
One year before the pandemic began, almost one-fifth of households in the United States did not have high-speed internet service. This digital divide put many households in a…
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, 43 percent of all households reported they had lost employment income, and 12 percent had fallen behind on rent or mortgage payments.…
