The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s annual report assesses the state of the rental and homeownership markets.

Demographic drivers to homeownership, housing demand and increase of housing construction, and financial inequalities and wealth gaps that continue to impact access to housing.

Topics include:

• Rising housing costs
• Household growth still high
• Shortage of low-rent units
• Low for-sale inventories lead homebuyers toward new homes
• Barriers to narrowing racial homeownership gaps
• Expanding the housing safety net
• Growing threat of climate change to the nation’s housing stock.

Read the report