Sentences with phrase «housing affordability gap»

In the face of an ever - widening housing affordability gap, there are options you may not have considered.

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This puts the housing market in a precarious position: a large gap between prices and incomes, worsening affordability, and an indebted nation of homeowners less able to withstand economic shocks.

Whether the benefit takes the form of a forgivable loan, a gift, or a home buying workshop, employer assisted housing is a win - win - win: Workers bridge the affordability gap, companies foster employee loyalty, and you generate business.

Speaking at the recent National Association of Home Builders» International Builders Show, Raines said the major concern for the real estate industry shouldn't be a housing «bubble,» which he considers unlikely, but a widening gap between housing «haves» and «have nots» that could lead to a housing affordability crunch.

Energy efficiency was the housing concern with the largest gap between the rate of importance and satisfaction — even topping other needs and desires like updated kitchens, storage space, safe neighborhoods, affordability, landlord responsiveness, and other issues, according to the survey.

Growth in the Gap between the Number of Low - Income Renters and the Supply of Affordable Units «For many low - income families, the rental housing affordability crisis is like a game of musical chairs in which there is never a chair left for them,» said Chris Herbert, Research Director at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Shousing affordability crisis is like a game of musical chairs in which there is never a chair left for them,» said Chris Herbert, Research Director at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing SHousing Studies.