Affordable Housing Studies
Study: Lack of Affordable Housing Affects Health
Housing is central to people’s opportunities for living long and well. Nationwide, housing costs far exceed affordability given local incomes in many communities. As a result, people have no choice but to spend too much on housing, leaving little left for other necessities. In Texas, 13% of households spend more than half of their income on housing costs. Severe housing cost burden ranges from 2% to 24% of households.
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The Gap Report March 2019: A Shortage of Affordable Homes
The U.S. has a shortage of seven million rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income renters, whose household incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income. Only 37 affordable and available rental homes exist for...
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High Rent is Restricting Job Market Growth
From Pacific Standard The cost of housing continues to rise in markets all across the country and Austin is no exception. A recent analysis of data from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that from 1960 to 2016, inflation-adjusted rents increased 61...
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Removing Barriers to Accessing High-Productivity Places
Regulatory constraints on housing production have shut millions of Americans out of the country’s most productive labor markets. Historically, Americans have moved to the parts of the country that offered the highest wages and most economic opportunity. This tendency...
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The Link Between Affordable Housing and Economic Mobility
Since its creation in 1986, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program has produced nearly 3 million housing units, making it the most important source of funding for affordable housing. Yet despite the importance of LIHTC to the field of affordable housing,...
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Agrihoods: Cultivating Best Practices
ULI’s Food and Real Estate Project explores the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities—such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—and real estate. It highlights how the growing interest in and awareness...
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Study: The Preservation of Subsidized Housing: What We Know and Need to Know
There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized affordable rental housing stock. The federal government has made a...
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Most Americans Cite a Housing Affordability Crisis Nationwide and Close to Home
Nearly three out of four American households believe that the nation is suffering a housing affordability crisis, and a majority of respondents reported this is a problem at their local and state level as well, according to a new nationwide survey conducted on behalf...
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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...
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Housing Near High-Performing Public Schools Costs 2.4 Times More than Housing Near Low-Performing Public Schools
Across the 100 largest metro areas in the nation, housing near high-performing public schools cost an average of 2.4 times more than housing near low-performing public schools, according to a study from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Neighborhoods with...
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