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The New Republic

The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing

While nearly 11 million tenants–a quarter of the US’s tenant households–qualify as “extremely low income,” earning 30 percent of AMI, and while the median tenant made just $40,500 a year in 2018, the vast majority of Affordable Housing built through all mechanisms targets higher income thresholds.

The Washington Post

Three mistakes to avoid in your DIY home renovation

Home remodeling spending rose from approximately $332 billion in the third quarter of 2020 to an estimated $339 billion in the fourth quarter, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

The New York Times

Affordable Housing Shouldn’t Be an Oxymoron

In 2019, according to Harvard’s 2020 State of the Nation’s Housing report, 37.1 million households — or roughly 30 percent of all American households — were “housing cost burdened,” meaning that they spent 30 percent or more of their income on housing.

The New York Times

Turning Away From Nursing Homes, to What?

As the aging of the nation accelerates, most communities need to do much more to become age-friendly, said Jennifer Molinsky, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.