Investor activity in rental markets, the cost benefits of manufactured housing, the dwindling supply of low-cost rentals, and more: our most popular blogs of 2023 examined a…
Sharon Cornelissen, Alexander Hermann
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July 12, 2023
During the pandemic, as lockdowns to reduce the spread of COVID-19 prompted widespread loss of work, millions of renters and homeowners fell behind on their housing payments…
The pandemic focused attention on our homes as never before, lifting the US remodeling market to an unprecedented height of $567 billion in 2022, according to our new report…
Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Chris Herbert
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January 25, 2023
Using restricted-access data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey containing detailed geographic information about where respondents live, this paper assesses…
Renter households have been disproportionately harmed by the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this financial distress was also highly geographically…
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…
Jennifer Molinsky, Nancy Berlinger, Bailey Hu
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October 6, 2022
During the pandemic, many older adults faced social isolation and disruptions in access to food, medical care, and supportive services. In response, organizations that…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many older adults faced social isolation and disruptions in access to food, medical care, and supportive services. In response, organizations…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann
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July 20, 2022
In 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large and growing share of renters were cost-burdened, according to a Center analysis of new experimental data from the…