Rental assistance is essential to enabling tens of millions with low incomes to afford housing, but those in need wait years due to underfunding. Any real answer to the housing crisis must build more homes and extend rental assistance to all who need it. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Most people who struggle to afford housing have a home but pay high shares of their income for rent. We need to build more homes, but also to expand rental assistance so everyone can have safe, stable housing. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
My new paper explains why expanding housing vouchers or other rental assistance is essential to addressing the housing affordability crisis. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Building more housing won’t enable the lowest-income renters to afford housing unless they also receive rental assistance. These renters are mostly low-wage workers or seniors and disabled people with low fixed incomes. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
We had a housing affordability crisis before we had a housing shortage, and more abundant housing alone won’t be enough to end it. We also need more rental assistance so everyone, no matter their income, can afford housing. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Severe housing affordability problems are overwhelmingly concentrated among the lowest-income people. Expanding supply won’t be enough to enable them to afford stable housing. They also need access to rental assistance to help pay the rent each month. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
We need more homes, but millions won’t be able to afford rent no matter how much we build b/c they don’t make enough even to cover basic housing operating costs.
Any real solution must also expand rental assistance, so that *everyone* can afford stable housing.
Rental assistance sharply cuts homelessness, overcrowding, substandard conditions, and housing instability. We need enough homes for every person, but also rental assistance so they can afford safe, stable housing. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Policymakers should expand rental assistance alongside adding supply, strengthening tenant rights, and improving the homelessness response system. There’s no need to wait for supply increases to help people struggling to afford housing.
