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Affordable Housing Studies

Nation is Ill-Prepared to House its Aging Population

More than half of US households are now headed by someone 50 or over, according to Housing America’s Older Adults 2018, a report released today by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. And the living arrangements, financial resources, health, and functional...

Rental Housing for a 21st Century Rural America

Many rural communities are facing shortages of affordable rental housing, an issue that is becoming increasingly urgent as incomes stagnate and federal supports are stretched thin. One in four rural renters is spending more than 50 percent of their income on...

Hurricane Harvey’s Impact: Resilience & Opportunity

By: Kendra Garrett & Kyle Anderson, Summer 2018 TAAHP Housing Policy Researchers In the days leading up to what became the U.S.’s second most devastating hurricane, tropical depression Harvey was being watched with a keen eye by many. Texans are not strangers...

Housing And Health: An Overview Of The Literature

There is strong evidence characterizing housing’s relationship to health. Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes, as do physical and social characteristics of neighborhoods.The impact of housing on health is now being...

The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes

Each year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low income households and other income groups. Based on the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS PUMS), The Gap...

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