Housing affordability has been decreasing worldwide, particularly in the advanced
economies, in recent decades. A fast-growing body of literature on housing affordability …

Abstract The United States is in a housing affordability crisis, with nearly half of all renter
households spending more than 30% of their incomes on rent and utilities each month. This …

Real house prices in the United States have risen by 55 percent over the last four decades,
driving substantial wealth benefits to homeowners. However, research has not explored how …

Scholarly work on rent burden, a rather scantily discussed topic within the broader realm of
declining housing affordability, still lacks a firm theory. This article seeks to address this gap …

Housing affordability is a growing challenge for households in the United States and other
developed countries. Prolonged exposure to housing cost burden can have damaging …

Housing cost burden, defined as the percentage of income spent on rent/mortgage and
utilities, is a growing problem as rents, mortgage interest rates, electricity, and gas costs …

As housing costs increase faster than salary and wage growth worldwide, housing
affordability stress (HAS) becomes an increasingly crucial urban problem. However, little …

Over the past several decades, the issue of housing burden has emerged as a critical global
challenge, with China serving as a pivotal case study amid its urbanization surge. Previous …

Abstract Background and Objectives Despite evidence linking financial challenges to poor
health among older adults, effective interventions are lacking. This study examined the …

Housing costs have risen dramatically in the past decade, surpassing their pre-Recession
levels, but the data that housing researchers and policymakers rely on to understand these …