Sentences with phrase «rental affordability problems»

Escalating rental affordability problems come at a time when the share of Americans that rent has increased from 31 percent in 2004 to 35 percent in 2012.

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Interviews with a representative sampling of the city's renting population indicate that 57 percent of households have had trouble finding rental housing and that affordability is the main problem for nearly half of these.

Affordability problems for renters have skyrocketed over the past decade both in number and the share of renters facing them, according to a new report on rental housing from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.