Between 1990 and 2016, the number of rental units in the U.S. priced below $800 per month (in real terms) shrank by nearly 2.5 million. However, over the same period, the…
While rental markets are cooling nationally, market conditions remain extremely tight at the low end of the market, offering little relief to affordability pressures faced by…
It’s not an illusion: low-cost rental housing in the US is disappearing. And our 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing report has the numbers to prove it.
Using ACS data from…
Elizabeth La Jeunesse, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Jonathan Spader
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September 17, 2019
Housing affordability has been a growing concern across the US over the past three decades. Indeed, between 1990 and 2017, the number of units renting for under $600…
Eric Belsky, Jack Goodman, Rachel Bogardus Drew
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June 1, 2005
Difficulty affording housing is widely acknowledged as the most common housing problem in the United States. No matter how one chooses to measure the problem, it is clearly…
W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
A major theme of the Joint Center’s 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing Report is the record growth in demand for rental units in recent years. From 2010-14, the pace of…
Rents rose faster than inflation in almost three-quarters of the nation’s major housing markets, according to analyses done for our latest America’s Rental…
While the Joint Center produces regular projections of home remodeling and repair activity at the national level, new analysis of the American Housing Surveys (AHS) suggests…
