Coronavirus Layoffs Have Bigger Impacts on Housing Security for Black, Latinx and Asian Households
The most devastating economic and public health outcomes of the coronavirus outbreak have fallen along socioeconomic and increasingly racial lines.
Policy & Industry
Two Months without Pay Pushes Food and Retail Workers to Spend 40% of their Annual Income on Rent
Renters working in food and retail industries could spend 40% of their annual income on housing costs if they are unable to work for two months.
Information From Past Pandemics, And What We Can Learn: A Literature Review
In both the 1918 influenza and the 2003 SARS outbreaks, economic activity fell sharply during the epidemic but snapped back once it ended.
Homeowners Embrace “Missing Middle” Housing, Remain Wary of Large Apartment Development
Among homeowners, support for so-called “missing-middle” housing options – the creation of mother-in-law suites and or allowing for duplex/triplex development on current single-family lots – is widespread.
Black Homeownership Shows Signs of Healing From the Wounds of the Great Recession
The U.S. black homeownership rate surged at the end of the 2010s, an encouraging sign that black homebuyers are increasingly succeeding in getting their slice of the American dream.
Mapping America’s Metropolitan Growth: Islands of Density in a Sea of No Growth
There are currently almost 140 million homes in the United States, and analyzing where, when and how they were built tells a vivid story of America’s metropolitan growth.
A Modest Proposal: How Even Minimal Densification Could Yield Millions of New Homes
Across 17 metro areas analyzed, allowing 10% of single-family lots to house two units instead of one could yield almost 3.3 million additional housing units.
The Housing Reasons Why Latinxs Have Less Wealth Than Whites
Latinxs are becoming homeowners at a higher rate than the overall U.S. population, beginning to close a gap with the white homeownership rate that has tripled since the start of last century. Despite recent gains, the homeownership gap -- currently sitting at 24.7 percentage points -- will take decades to close.
Experts: It May Take Years for Home Building to Get Back to Historic Levels
Today’s slow pace of single-family home building isn’t expected to get back to historic norms until 2022 or later, according to a Zillow survey of experts.
How the Housing Bust Widened the Wealth Gap for Communities of Color
When the housing market went bust, homes in communities of color were more likely to succumb to foreclosure than homes in white communities.
