Jim Parrott

A severe shortage of homes for working-class and low-income families is pushing up house prices and rents across the country, putting homeownership increasingly out of reach for many Americans and making rents so high that it is all but impossible for renters to save. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg, file)

January 4, 2020 at 7:00 am

The conundrum that affordable housing poses for the nation | Commentary

The widening gap between the growth of wages and the cost of housing has put homeownership out of reach for more and more families, particularly...

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