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The New York Times

Who Is Driving Rental Demand? Hint: It’s Not Millennials Anymore

The median U.S. home sale price hit a record high in July, according to Redfin, keeping more people, especially younger Americans, in rentals. And now there’s a new generation leading the rental pack, according to a report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University: Generation Z.

Yahoo Finance

Homeowner remodeling to pick back up in 2025: Harvard study

Homeowner remodeling spending has declined since 2022, however, a new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University expects it to pick up in 2025. Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies associate director of the remodeling futures program Abbe Will joins Wealth! to discuss the projection and how homeowners are managing the housing market.

The Boston Globe

The magic number to afford a home in Boston? $217,000 in annual income.

The median price of a single-family house in the Boston metropolitan area soared 40 percent over the past five years, according to March 2024 data from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. (The median is the price at which half the homes are more expensive and half are less.)

BBC

Biden announces plan to cap rent hikes

Nationwide, rent prices have risen by 21% since January 2021, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. Home prices are on the rise, too.
In early 2024, home prices hit an all-time record, rising 6.4% from February 2023 to 2024, according to a new report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

The Wall Street Journal

Evictions Surge in Major Cities in the American Sunbelt

Higher rents mean that even temporary income losses can be too much for tenants to ride out: About a quarter of renter households in America spend 50% or more of their income on housing, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Money Magazine

8 Things People Have Stopped Buying (and Why)

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University estimates that spending on home remodeling and maintenance will shrink throughout 2024 and into early 2025 — including a decrease of about 7% in each of the last two quarters of this year.

The Washington Post

What to do if your landlord raises your rent

According to the latest annual report on the state of rental housing from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, half of the 22.4 million renting households in the U.S. were cost burdened, meaning they spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent in 2022. Evictions also increased, along with homelessness.