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Report: Unaffordable housing hampers local employment growth

Posted Jul 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm by Leslie Black-Plumeau

report coverStatistical research confirms unaffordable housing has broad impacts for local economies.

In the recent report “Unaffordable Housing and Employment Growth,” researchers at the New England Public Policy Center explain incremental increases in housing unaffordability reduce employment growth in U.S. metropolitan areas and counties and for all cities in California.

The results “turn out to be remarkably consistent,” the report concludes.



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