Unease in the Housing Market Amid a Worsening Affordability Crisis Tuesday, June 24, 2025 This year, the US housing market is shrouded in uncertainty. High home prices and interest rates have pushed sales to their lowest level in 30 years; insurance premiums and property taxes are on the... By CHRIS HERBERT
Affordability Is There a Better Way to Measure Housing Affordability? Wednesday, September 26, 2018 When the Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates the extent of housing affordability problems, we... By CHRIS HERBERT, DANIEL MCCUE
Affordability Older Adults Increasingly Face Housing Affordability Challenges Friday, September 21, 2018 Due to both population growth and soaring housing costs, the number of adults age 65 and over... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY, WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Affordability Price-to-Income Ratios are Nearing Historic Highs Thursday, September 13, 2018 The typical sale price of an existing single-family home in 2017 was 4.2 times greater than the... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Affordability Even Fully-Employed and Moderate-Income Households Struggle to Pay the Rent Thursday, July 5, 2018 The nation’s almost 21 million cost-burdened renter households are not just low-income or unemployed... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Affordability Winner of 2018 Best Paper on Housing Prize Focuses on Philadelphia’s Efforts to Address Climate Change and Affordable Housing Friday, June 1, 2018 The Philadelphia Energy Campaign (PEC) is an unlikely success story of a municipal climate... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Affordability How Do We Proactively Preserve Unsubsidized Affordable Housing? Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robust land bank and land trust partnerships, long-term lease-purchase programs, and low-interest... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Affordability How Do Funding and Review Processes Shape the Design of Affordable Housing? Thursday, March 22, 2018 How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Affordability Really?! Ten Surprising Findings from the America’s Rental Housing Report Monday, January 22, 2018 Following the release of our America’s Rental Housing report last month, one of the most common... By JONATHAN SPADER
Affordability Low-Cost Rental Housing Increasingly Difficult to Find Wednesday, January 3, 2018 While rental markets are cooling nationally, market conditions remain extremely tight at the low end... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
