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The Wall Street Journal

Amazon Pledging More Than $2 Billion for Affordable Housing in Three Hub Cities

But housing advocates also say these investments aren’t expected to solve the housing shortages for lower and even middle-income earners in these expensive metro areas. “It’s going to take a much larger investment of resources to address the problem at a scale that’s needed,” said Chris Herbert, managing director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

CBS News

Low-wage workers in 20 states will see a pay raise on New Year's Day

About half of all renters are "cost burdened," meaning they pay more than 30% of their income toward housing, according to Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. After paying their rent, people who earn less than $15,000 a year have about $410 left each month for food, transportation, health care and other essentials, the study noted.

Forbes

How Is The Apartment Business Holding Up? It Depends On Where You Mean

A study just released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies analyzed the surge of vacancies in apartments, showing that the vacancies are concentrated in the urban centers of the major cities, but that the suburban rentals are retaining their tenants rather well.

Axios

US home prices march upward

"Supply appears to be the tightest for low and moderate cost homes," said Alexander Hermann of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, an author of a recent report on the current housing scene.

Boston.com

Shut out: What buyers of color need to close the homeownership gap

“Housing is a cause and consequence of our racial disparities,’’ Center Managing Director Chris Herbert said. “We dug ourselves a hole over the course of a couple hundred years. It’s going to take generations to eliminate the homeownership gap, but if we could close the gap by even a couple of percentage points, that would impact hundreds of thousands of families.’’

Forbes

Pandemic Remodeling Boom Looming? Cash-Out Refinancing Hits 13-Year High

“The remodeling market is bouncing back from the initial shocks caused by the pandemic, as homeowners continue to spend significant time in their homes and are adapting it for work, school and leisure,” says Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

The Economist

Rich renters are fleeing America’s cities

A new report by researchers at Harvard University finds that only the most well-off renters will benefit from the impact of the pandemic on the rental market.