The U.S. Housing Crisis Explained: What Americans Need to Know
Sep 11, 2024 · Learn about the current challenges and policies for home buyers, renters, and homeless people in the U.S. housing market. RAND economist and behavioral scientist discuss the factors, trends, and initiatives that affect housing affordability and availability.
The History Behind America’s Affordable Housing Problem
Mar 25, 2024 · T he U.S. has a housing crisis — one only growing more serious with each day. In the District of Columbia, a recent report by the Urban Institute found that 12% of the city’s population of more...
Why affordable housing is at risk of disappearing across the US | AP News
Oct 7, 2024 · While Americans continue to struggle under high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units could disappear in the next five years.
A housing shortage in the U.S. is leading to zoning changes - NPR
Feb 17, 2024 · The U.S. is short millions of housing units. Half of renters are paying more than a third of their salary in housing costs, and for those looking to buy, scant few homes on the market are...
Housing is unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters : NPR
Jan 25, 2024 · The upshot is that millions more people qualify for federal housing subsidies. But those have been chronically underfunded, and the amount available has fallen further behind the need.
It’s time to build more public housing in the U.S. to solve the ...
May 22, 2023 · These public and social housing projects can ensure permanent affordability, support mixed-income neighborhoods, and bring new assets onto public balance sheets.
Local governments are becoming public developers to build new housing …
Feb 10, 2024 · Montgomery County, Maryland, and Atlanta, Georgia, are among the places that are using public money to create mixed-income, publicly owned apartments. They are calling it social housing...
HUD Announces New Critical Investments in our Nation’s Public Housing
May 6, 2024 · HUD announced new funding for 2,756 public housing authorities to modernize or develop public housing in all 50 states and U.S. territories. The funding is provided through HUD's Capital Fund Program, which supports large-scale improvements such as roof replacement or energy-efficient upgrades.
Housing experts say there just aren't enough homes in the U.S.
Apr 23, 2024 · The United States is millions of homes short of demand, and lacks enough affordable housing units. And many Americans feel like housing costs are eating up too much of their take-home pay.
'A steady deterioration': US communities face a public housing …
May 4, 2023 · The U.S. hasn't built any large-scale public housing since the 1970s when then-President Richard Nixon put a moratorium on its construction, Faber said, preventing expansion to keep up with population growth in counties like Platte.