Housing Equality & Policy
All Policy & Current Issues
February 3, 2021
Amazon’s recent pledge aims to help address the housing affordability problem in certain areas. Even huge amounts of money–like Amazon’s commitment of $2 billion–will only have a minor impact on the share of families who spend more than 30% of their income on rent. The hot housing market is good for homeowners, but it also […]
December 3, 2020
Georgia had the sixth-biggest net inflow of any state in 2019, and affordable Atlanta is perennially one of the most popular destinations for Redfin.com users leaving expensive coastal areas. People moving to the Atlanta area from pricey, liberal metros like New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles is likely one factor helping tilt Georgia blue […]
November 23, 2020
Home-value growth has accelerated in suburbs and flatlined in cities, and suburban housewives have become more rare. The American suburbs have become more racially and ethnically diverse and more Democratic over the last decade. To understand the changing demographics of the suburbs, we analyzed data from the U.S. Census, along with Redfin’s housing market data […]
November 12, 2020
Fifty-three percent of homeowners are financially better off than they were four years ago, versus 44% of renters. Thirty-two percent of Americans have lost their job or lost wages—or someone in their household has—due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey of more than 3,000 U.S. residents that was fielded in October. Broken down […]
October 30, 2020
A smaller share—23%—say that recent natural disasters have made them like where they live even more. More than a quarter (27%) of Americans said that recent natural disasters such as fires, floods and storms have made them want to move away from where they currently live, or have changed where they want to move to, […]
