Rent

A new report finds that, all across the country, minimum-wage workers don't earn enough to rent a two-bedroom home.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson plans to propose rent increases of up to 300 percent for low-income households, the Washington Post reports.

• By Kate Wheeling

In New York City, Airbnb has raised rents, removed housing from the rental market, and fueled gentrification—and its effects are being felt elsewhere too.

• By Alastair Boone

New research finds that housing instability can affect the mental and physical health of family members of all ages.

• By Candace Butera

Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.

• By Jake Blumgart

The government has called the new Rental Assistance Demonstration program the "answer" to housing woes, but there's very little evidence to support that case.

• By Rachel Cohen

Where we find innovation, we find industry clusters. That doesn't mean the two are causally linked.

• By Jim Russell

With more and more individual investors looking to real estate as just another money-making commodity to add to their portfolio, rents are being driven to unreachable heights for all but the wealthiest among us.

• By Kyle Chayka