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Housing Perspectives

Research, trends, and perspective from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

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Rental Housing

Have Incomes Kept Up with Rising Rents?

While renters’ median housing costs rose, in real terms, by 11 percent between 2001 and 2016, their...

By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Rental Housing

Is Rent Growth Finally Slowing?

Rents rose faster than inflation in almost three-quarters of the nation’s major housing markets...

By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE