There are always surprising and interesting data points that emerge as we work on our reports, but America’s Rental Housing 2022 was stunning in the sheer number of record-…
Rental housing demand came roaring back in the second year of the pandemic, reducing vacancy rates and driving up rents, according to our new America’s Rental Housing…
Rental market conditions in the United States have changed fundamentally since the Great Recession, according to America’s Rental Housing 2020, our new report out today. The…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Sophia Wedeen
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August 4, 2022
Nearly a third of neighborhoods across the country have few options for renters, and these places are disproportionately suburban, higher-income, and have a higher share of…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Jennifer Molinsky
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April 2, 2019
Housing is a central component of family life and can provide a foundation for family well-being. While we typically think of family households as homeowners, renters are…
A few weeks after our research team has started digging into the data for a new report, we get together and share preliminary findings and figures. Even for people who work…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 1, 2004
With investors focused primarily on the upper segment and policymakers on the lower, the middle of the rental housing market has gone largely unexamined. Nonetheless, the 14…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 14, 2017
A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to our 2017 America’s Rental Housing report. Fewer new renter…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 9, 2015
Rental housing is home to a growing share of the nation’s increasingly diverse households, but even with the strong rebound in multifamily construction, tight rental markets…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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December 9, 2013
Rental housing has always provided a broad choice of homes for people at all phases of life. The recent economic turmoil underscored the many advantages of renting and raised…