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The Washington Post

Affordability, wealth gap persist in housing market, report finds

Housing payments for home buyers and renters spiked in 2021, but higher levels of construction and reduced competition for homes may ease the pressure later this year and in 2023, according to “The State of the Nation’s Housing 2022” report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

The New York Times

Relief Eludes Many Renters as Fed Raises Interest Rates

Builders were completing units at an unusually rapid 349,000-per-year rate in early 2022, about 1.2 times the prepandemic pace, based on estimates in a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.

Marketplace

What to know about affordable housing

"Just 1 in 4 income-eligible renters receives rental assistance, and with nearly 20 million cost-burdened renter households there just isn't enough support to go around... That's part of why we're in the current crisis, that incomes just aren't high enough to keep up with the rent increases and there just isn't enough support" says Whitney Airgood-Obrycki.

Boston.com

Water damage riles condo owners in Plymouth

“Beyond six years, it is hard to probe whether the occupancy or behavior of the occupants isn’t impacting the system. It’s a little harder to find causality,’’ said Carlos Martín, project director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.