Advanced Age Can Increase Risk of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Monday, May 6, 2024 With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors unique to older adults. In... By SAMARA SCHECKLER
Affordability Housing Inadequacy Remains a Problem for the Lowest-Income Renters Thursday, May 19, 2016 In the early 1970s, in response to growing concerns about the housing conditions of poor families... By IRENE LEW
Rental Housing Renters Also Have Healthy Housing Concerns Tuesday, May 10, 2016 The Joint Center recently released a working paper highlighting American consumers’ concerns and... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Rental Housing Why Does Affordable Housing Need Saving? Wednesday, May 4, 2016 In recent years the skyrocketing housing prices in major cities in the United States have raised the... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Affordability Affordable Rental Housing Development in the For-Profit Sector: A Case Study of McCormack Baron Salazar Thursday, March 10, 2016 Despite the private for-profit sector’s importance in affordable housing development, there has been... By RACHEL G. BRATT
Affordability Evicted: Confronting Some Uncomfortable Truths Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is just being released... By CHRIS HERBERT
Affordability HUD Funding in the Presidential Budget Prioritizes Economic Mobility and Rental Assistance Thursday, February 25, 2016 Several weeks ago, President Obama released his final budget proposal to Congress. In it, the... By IRENE LEW
Aging The Future of Renting Among Older Adults Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Since 2005, the number of renter households aged 50 and over has increased dramatically, jumping... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY
Remodeling Energy Consumption in the Residential Rental Sector, and Promoting Energy Efficiency Tuesday, January 19, 2016 With the recent release of our America’s Rental Housing report, as well as the landmark... By ELIZABETH LA JEUNESSE
Affordability Surge in New Rental Construction Fails to Meet Need for Low-Cost Housing Tuesday, January 12, 2016 As we highlighted in our recent America’s Rental Housing report, the housing affordability crisis... By IRENE LEW