The relationship between vacancy rates and rent increases is astonishingly clear. When vacancy rates are low, rent growth is high; when vacancy rates are high, rent growth is low (or negative). H/t to bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ for link: smcorridornews.com/steady-as-she-…

Minority households in the US face significant hurdles when trying to buy a home. Reflecting decades of unfair policies, the mortgage denial rate is still twice as high for Black applicants as it is for the overall population. @MITgcfp MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-…

“What happens to rents after new homes are built? Adding new housing supply slows rent growth—both nearby & regionally—by reducing competition among tenants for each available home and thereby lowering displacement pressures.” 🏗️🏢 Alex Horowitz Ryan Canavan pewtrusts.org/en/research-an…

Cleaning up Daingerfield Island today for the GWMP #NationalParkWeek #Pew75 !

It’s a great day to support the ⁦National Park Service⁩ and pitch in with a clean up at Daingerfield Island along the GW Parkway. ⁦⁦@Pewtrusts⁩ helping to celebrate #Pew75 with service.

Homelessness is higher in areas where rents are higher, new research shows. What’s more is cities are finding ways to keep housing costs and homelessness low. How? Making enough housing available—especially lower-cost options. pew.org/4282yjb

Why has renting become so expensive? Research shows a lack of available housing is driving up costs. In Colorado, we found that lower rental vacancy rates corresponded with rising rents. #COPolitics pew.org/3Vj3S0s

This jumps from useful data to unsupported speculation where it really counts IMO. The people who move into new apartments mostly come from the same metro area. When they move, they immediately facilitate moving chains that create vacancies in that older, cheaper housing stock.

What happens to rents when new homes are added? Research shows it can reduce competition for housing—and slow rent growth. See the data: pew.org/41eWa9v

Limits on the number of dwelling units permitted, and single-family zoning, are at least partly to blame for a disproportionate share of housing production continuing to occur in at-risk areas. cayimby.org/playing-with-f…

Workers build California. By coming together to end the housing shortage and affordability crisis, we also create thousands of good-paying jobs for construction workers.

Before converting offices into housing, ask: have you tried just building housing? DC could save a lot of $ on HID by lifting the Height Act. That said, HID is a well-structured response to current limitations on growth downtown. And DC’s tax base is unusually dependent on CRE.

And the Montana Senate just Sine Die'd after sending all zoning reform bills to the governor's desk! #montanamiracle #yimby #prohousing

people think a 5,000 sq ft lot is only big enough for a single family home, but the truth is you can get a lot out of it if it were legal to build

Our new study finds that manufactured housing offers a potential solution to rising construction costs, with a significant cost advantage over site-built homes. MHI Ivory Innovations jchs.harvard.edu/blog/comparing…

The BLS-Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Report has tracked household budgets since 1984. How is the median household doing today vs then? In short: incomes are $16k higher, and food and clothing are cheaper. But the avg household is spending $5k more on #housing. (1/10)

New survey reveals that a majority of Americans support policies to boost housing availability and affordability—with 7 of the 10 policies surveyed topping 70% approval. Here's what they said about building more apartments…

…and most Americans similarly support other policies to make it easier to build new homes. 👇 pew.org/3N6Wdzw