Prospective homebuyers and renters across the United States have seen prices surge and supply plummet during the coronavirus pandemic. Amid these circumstances, about half of Americans (49%) say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 percentage points from early 2018, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in October 2021.
Another 36% of U.S. adults said in the fall that affordable housing availability is a minor problem in their community, while just 14% said it is not a problem.
Americans’ concerns about the availability of affordable housing have outpaced worries about other local issues. The percentage of adults who say this is a major problem where they live is larger than the shares who say the same about drug addiction (35%), the economic and health impacts of COVID-19 (34% and 26%, respectively) and crime (22%).
Opinions on the question of housing affordability differ by a variety of […]
Difficulty finding housing is part of a larger trend to destroy affordable housing and leave the solution to the marketplace. This trend was driven starting with the Reagan administration and with fits and starts has not stopped since.
I agree with you, Albus.
P.S.: It started when we did not listen to Eisenhower when he warned us. We should have listened to him, he was a brilliant man.