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…
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…
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…
Single-family rentals have long been an important part of the US housing stock. But according to our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report, investor purchases of single…
The supply of low-cost rentals fell by 3.9 million units over the last decade, according to our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report. As a new interactive tool (Figure…