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COVID-19

Home construction is surging, but it's leaving out struggling renters

by Mitchell Hartman
Aug 18, 2020
Apartment market tracking firm RENTCafé predicts apartment construction will be down 12% from 2019 to the lowest level in five years.
Even with the surges in homebuilders' confidence and some construction metrics, there is still an affordable renting housing crisis.
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COVID-19

Rents are down, vacancy rates are up in NYC rental market

by Jasmine Garsd
Aug 14, 2020
A July report shows landlords are having a harder time finding tenants in the pandemic.
The notoriously pricey rental market is in upheaval.
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Divided Decade

The rent is too damn high, according to a new Pew report

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Apr 19, 2018
Since 2001, rental price increases have outpaced median household income growth.
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Soon, the house next door could be a rental

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 20, 2016
One in four single-family homes is now investor-owned, and rented by a tenant. And that percentage is increasing.
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Rents are rising, and fast

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Apr 23, 2015
Rents have increased by almost 4 percent and are likely to keep going.
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Apartment shortage is forcing up rents

by Adam Allington
Dec 22, 2014
Investors who bought rental properties find they can now raise rents.
Not a sign of the times, in Centreville, Virginia. 
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