Rental Markets Are Cooling, but Rents Still Far Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Rent growth has moderated recently from historically high pandemic-era levels, according to our newest report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024 , as overheated markets cooled and new... By PEYTON WHITNEY
Housing Markets & Conditions Housing Costs Strain Owners and Renters Alike; Millions Priced Out of Homeownership Thursday, June 20, 2024 Homeowners and renters across the US are struggling with high housing costs, according to our new... By CHRIS HERBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Rebuilding the Construction Trades Workforce Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Since the mid-2000s, the construction industry in the United States has faced a significant shortage... By SOPHIE HUANG
Housing Markets & Conditions Rural Areas Saw Disproportionate Home Price Growth During the Pandemic Thursday, May 16, 2024 Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the result of... By PEYTON WHITNEY, ALEXANDER HERMANN
Housing Markets & Conditions Can New Suburban Housing Make Urban Areas More Affordable? Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more... By VALENTINE GILBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Harnessing the Potential of Manufactured Housing to Expand Entry-Level Homeownership Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing... By CHADWICK REED
Housing Markets & Conditions How Definitions Shape the Rural Housing Landscape Wednesday, February 7, 2024 In the United States, rural areas face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. While... By ALEXANDER HERMANN, WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions Estimating the National Housing Shortfall Monday, January 29, 2024 With home prices and rents hovering near record highs, and for-sale inventories and vacancies stuck... By DANIEL MCCUE, SOPHIE HUANG
Affordability Home Price-to-Income Ratio Reaches Record High Monday, January 22, 2024 In 2022, the median sale price for a single-family home in the US was 5.6 times higher than the... By ALEXANDER HERMANN, PEYTON WHITNEY
Affordability More Than 42 Million US Households Were Cost Burdened in 2022 Friday, January 19, 2024 The number of cost-burdened households in the US rose dramatically during the pandemic and in 2022... By PEYTON WHITNEY
