The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University reports that real median household incomes across all age groups under 55 have not increased since 2000.
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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard said in its 2011 report that the recession increased the pool of low-income renters at the same time competition for cheaper affordable housing units became more fierce.
Between 2001 and 2006, the number of homeowners paying more than half their income on housing rose to 8.8 million, from 6.5 million, the largest such increase in history, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
"In the U.S., there's still a strong cultural pull toward homeownership, because in normal times it's always been seen as a way to build net worth and equity, " said Dan McCue, research manager at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Thanks to the fact that rents have risen much faster than incomes, nearly one in three households spends more than 30% of its income on housing, and one in eight spends more than 50%, according to Harvard's Joint Centre for Housing Studies.
The home improvement market, which includes maintenance and improvement spending of both rentals and owner-occupied units, promises to rise at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% per year in the coming years, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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But some of the residents formed the Union of Tenants and Housing Applicants and worked with the Center of Housing and Urban Studies, a non-governmental organization.
This report cites studies that jobs, housing costs, family ties and climate are all more important.
Studies of the pre-bust housing market found that eliminating the MID and the tax deduction for property taxes would substantially knock back prices, especially in communities with high housing costs.
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While WAG intends to protect its "universal" policies, such as free prescriptions and concessionary fares, other changes in areas such as housing benefit have led the Institute of Fiscal Studies to suggest that the June 2010 budget cuts and service reductions will impact disproportionately on those that are most vulnerable.
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