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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, renters in the United States were facing a housing affordability crisis. Nearly a quarter of renter households were spending more than half…

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, homelessness was increasing across the country. As of January 2019, 568,000 people were experiencing homelessness, an increase of…

Could fresh, “outside-of-the-box” thinking help address the seemingly intractable problem of rental affordability? Last spring, we decided to explore that question by…

The number of households who paid more the 30 or 50 percent of their income for housing in 2019...

A chart showing the share of renters and homeowners who were behind on rent/mortgage payments or lost income during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness was on the rise in the United States. The Center’s 20th annual John T. Dunlop lecture, held virtually on October 13th,…

As people spend more time at home during the quarantines and shutdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, electricity use has partially shifted from the commercial and…

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Hispanic households have been more likely to lose income and experience difficulty making rent or mortgage payments, according…

By the end of May, 44 percent of the nation’s households lost employment income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequently, millions have been unable to pay for their…

The economic pain we are experiencing in the wake of the pandemic calls for unprecedented government action to contain the fallout from a policy-induced economic coma. It…