By: Leslie Black-Plumeau

July 20, 2010

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.