Search

RR07-5: This paper examines the lessons learned from decades of experience with the several programs under which project-based affordable rental housing has been…

RR07-17: U.S. rental housing policy is primarily aimed at relieving the housing cost burdens of a fraction of low-income Americans for as long as they remain income-…

RR07-10: In recent years, housing has all but disappeared from national-level debate except for occasional discussions of a possible housing “bubble” and the all-too-…

RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…

RR07-14: This paper seeks to examine the nature of that resistance, the reasons behind it, and how it can be overcome. In general, people who support multifamily rental…

RR07-6: For many years, policymakers have agreed that low-income, working-age people who receive government rent subsidies ought to strive for self-sufficiency and that…

RR07-3: At a congressional hearing in 1948, representative A.S. Mike Monroney argued that the construction of new, subsidized rental housing improves the surrounding…

RR07-15: There are 18 million units in one to four unit rental housing properties in the United States, making up half of the nation’s rental housing stock, yet this…

RR07-8: Nearly one-fifth of the rental housing stock is in smaller, multifamily apartment buildings with between 5 and 49 units. Even though relatively large shares of…

The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back…