Harvard Releases 2016 State of the Nation's Housing Report

摘要

On June 22, 2016, Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released its annual assessment of the U.S. rental and homeownership markets. According to the report, the rental market, which is driving force behind ' the current housing recovery, continues to be tight. The rental market's outlook will continue to be dire without significant investment and policy changes that address the affordable housing crisis. Meanwhile, homeownership rates continue to fall and is at its lowest in almost half a century. Despite ow homeownership, researchers remain optimistic that "the bottom may be in sight as the lingering effects of the housing crash continue to dissipate."