A new study from the Urban Land Institute shows that middle-income households of frontline workers are being impacted most significantly by exacerbated housing shortages as a result of the pandemic.
Source: Inman News
Frontline workers are at greatest risk of housing shortage
Published in affordability, affordable housing, Analysis, Birmingham, charlotte, cincinnati, cleveland, Colorado Springs, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, Data, denver, economic segregation, frontline worker, honolulu, housing, housing crisis, housing equality, housing segregation, las vegas, los angeles, Louisville, low-income, Markets & Economy, middle-income, ogden, pittsburgh, portland, Racial Segregation, riverside, san antonio, san diego, seattle, St. Louis, stockton, The Urban Land Institute and Toledo
More from affordabilityMore posts in affordability »
- Why affordability hits different in a military market
- 8M reasons to focus: A data-driven Q4 reality check for real estate
- A 7-home estate and a former talk show host’s Montecito hideaway among September’s priciest sales
- How buyer affordability education makes you the go-to agent
- 48% of Americans blame investors for ‘unreasonable’ housing costs
More from affordable housingMore posts in affordable housing »
- New Fannie, Freddie housing goals may hurt working families
- Trump administration lays out 5-year goals for Fannie, Freddie
- Feds bust real estate execs in $25.9M scheme against homeless
- How buyer affordability education makes you the go-to agent
- 48% of Americans blame investors for ‘unreasonable’ housing costs
More from AnalysisMore posts in Analysis »
- The inventory surge is sputtering. See how your market stacks up
- Northeast sees strongest price gains in Q3 as median single-family home price hits $426,800
- Heard of a K-shaped economy? You’re living in it now
- Is the housing market in the midst of a recession? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent thinks so
- New client leads, murky waters: October’s mixed bag for real estate
More from BirminghamMore posts in Birmingham »
- Lake Homes Realty branches out with new firm for mountain homes
- Fairway Independent Mortgage buys itself a new Midwest division
- Traverse City luxury condos poised to set new price threshold
- Renting becomes sign of wealth as many opt against homebuying
- Black households led first-time homebuyer market in 2024
More from charlotteMore posts in charlotte »
More from cincinnatiMore posts in cincinnati »
- Why is Midwest real estate beating the rest of the country?
- Backers of rival mortgage credit scores wage public relations war
- MLS hacked? Solid Earth’s Passkey authentication aims to lock it down
- Compass’ antitrust gamble could shatter Zillow’s empire
- 7 metros where you can snag a luxury home for less than $1M
More from clevelandMore posts in cleveland »
- Veterans have been ‘priced out,’ left behind by the housing market
- How this agent went viral by falling in love with the home in his TikTok video tour
- Sellers outnumber buyers by 36% — but that figure is starting to shrink
- The hottest ZIP codes of 2025: What real estate agents need to know
- Century 21 CEO: Recruiting ‘is so ultra competitive right now’
More from Colorado SpringsMore posts in Colorado Springs »
- These are the 31 markets where home prices have fallen the most
- Engel & Völkers expands into Pikes Peak in northern Colorado
- RE/MAX Properties and RE/MAX Advantage Realty officially merge
- Artist’s psychedelic hula-hooping home lists in Colorado for $560K
- Top Colorado Coldwell Banker team jumps to Keller Williams
More from coronavirus pandemicMore posts in coronavirus pandemic »
- Condo sales fall to 10-year low amid surge in insurance costs, HOA fees
- Meet Inman’s 2023 ‘Person of the Year’: The Small Broker-Owner
- The internet fell hard for real estate in 2021. But can the love affair last?
- Los Angeles apartment owners sue over COVID rent freeze
- Chris Heller: Brokerages and teams are playing chicken. Who will win?
More from COVID-19More posts in COVID-19 »
More from DataMore posts in Data »
- The inventory surge is sputtering. See how your market stacks up
- New client leads, murky waters: October’s mixed bag for real estate
- What Zillow’s marketing genius can teach you about social media
- Median monthly housing payments see sharpest drop in almost 1 year
- Existing-home sales gain momentum in September amid falling mortgage rates
More from denverMore posts in denver »
- The inventory surge is sputtering. See how your market stacks up
- PartnerOne acquiring Mortgage Cadence from Accenture
- Tech Review: Guest House shrinks time-to-market with listing prep
- An interactive look inside the new-inventory run that’s losing steam
- Forget private marketplaces, Colorado brokers launch full-transparency offensive
More from frontline workerMore posts in frontline worker »
More from honoluluMore posts in honolulu »
- The 15 priciest home sales of 2025 so far are pretty huge
- Luxury market ‘as strong as ever’ despite broader slowness
- The good, the bad, the ugly: What to know before you buy an Airbnb
- Appeals court will let DOJ speak in REX case against NAR, Zillow
- America’s biggest homes are just 30 miles from the country’s tiniest lofts
More from housingMore posts in housing »
- How politics and policy are fueling the housing crisis in 2025
- Pressure on mortgage rates eases as Trump pauses higher tariffs
- What the presidential candidates plan to do about affordable housing
- RFK Jr. at ICLV: Homeownership is the engine of the middle class
- Housing inventory growth doesn’t guarantee greater affordability
More from housing crisisMore posts in housing crisis »
- How 1 agent is fighting for fair housing in Big Sky Country
- Attorneys general pile onto Zillow-Redfin following FTC rental suit
- The American homeownership dream is primed for a comeback
- Pasadena ADU program offers second shot at affordable housing
- Former HUD Secretary: We need big ideas on affordable housing
More from housing equalityMore posts in housing equality »
- NAR speech policy change could shift disciplinary burden to brokers
- LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance blasts NAR for supporting Anti-LGBTQ candidates
- Lydia Pope talks fair housing and the fight for equality
- Chase expands its homebuyer grant program for minorities
- HUD’s new fair housing guidance is ‘a Band-Aid’ for LGBTQ+ community
More from housing segregationMore posts in housing segregation »
- Rise in Black homeownership over past decade negligible, data shows
- Landlords more likely to respond to renters with white-sounding names
- Baird & Warner commits $215K to fair housing law scholarship
- NAR on historic apology: It wasn’t just ‘bad agents’ who discriminated
- 9 questions about Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, answered
More from las vegasMore posts in las vegas »
- Inman is celebrating 30 years of community, and you’re invited
- SERHANT. enters Sin City with 2nd Southwestern market launch
- From Vegas to venture capital: Navigating the uncertain path of the proptech founder
- Douglas Elliman begins expanding overseas
- 2025 a banner year for mortgage deregulation and legislation
More from los angelesMore posts in los angeles »
- Inman is celebrating 30 years of community, and you’re invited
- Brandi Marshall on ‘Selling the OC’ stardom, feuds and a brutal real estate market
- Jason Oppenheim: ‘Epic’ real estate + big drama makes new ‘Selling the OC’ season the best yet
- ‘Selling the OC’ drops today. Get to know the agents
- Falling home prices leave nearly 1 million Americans ‘underwater’
More from LouisvilleMore posts in Louisville »
- Broker Spotlight: Aaron Luttrull, Schuler Bauer Real Estate Services
- RealScout co-founder Andrew Flachner returns to helm as CEO
- The Agency rides into Kentucky with Louisville franchise
- A bad buying experience launched this RE/MAX agent’s career
- Most cities are making a comeback — but not the priciest ones
More from low-incomeMore posts in low-income »
More from Markets & EconomyMore posts in Markets & Economy »
- ‘He didn’t even say he was sorry’: Brooklyn investor gets prison time for 12-year deed fraud scheme
- How to help senior real estate clients right-size with confidence
- Welcome to the Senior Class: Downsizing with a home equity conversion mortgage
- Why independent brokerages matter more than ever amid real estate consolidation
- What is a 50-year mortgage? The pros and cons of Trump’s proposal
More from middle-incomeMore posts in middle-income »
More from ogdenMore posts in ogden »
More from pittsburghMore posts in pittsburgh »
- Veterans have been ‘priced out,’ left behind by the housing market
- Howard Hanna launches first rebrand in more than 40 years
- Low-fee brokers can offer quality, full service for less: Watchdog
- 7 metros where you can snag a luxury home for less than $1M
- The market is short 416K homes for middle-class homebuyers: NAR
More from portlandMore posts in portland »
- The inventory surge is sputtering. See how your market stacks up
- 5 types of social posts that are filling agents’ pipelines right now (with examples to copy)
- More than half of metros stray from ‘balanced’ housing market
- Why Flyhomes is quitting the real estate brokerage business
- Here are the markets where homebuyers have the upper hand
More from Racial SegregationMore posts in Racial Segregation »
More from riversideMore posts in riverside »
- How the growing buyer power shift is reshaping the real estate market
- Here are the markets where homebuyers have the upper hand
- 2 Americas: Housing markets the Great Rebalancing has left behind
- Want to get more for your sellers? List in late May
- Home values have surged at 2X the normal rate since pandemic
More from san antonioMore posts in san antonio »
- Where else is Zillow not enforcing its private listing ban?
- Veterans have been ‘priced out,’ left behind by the housing market
- How a new agent turned hateful social media comments into a growth opportunity
- 15% of homebuyers ‘ghosted’ homesellers in September
- How 1 luxury agent livestreamed his way to listing an NBA star’s Texas mansion
More from san diegoMore posts in san diego »
- Inman is celebrating 30 years of community, and you’re invited
- The anti-lawsuit way of presenting your fee: Now Streaming
- Tech Review: Guest House shrinks time-to-market with listing prep
- Free criminal background checks, smart lead generation and game-changing technology
- 5 types of social posts that are filling agents’ pipelines right now (with examples to copy)
More from seattleMore posts in seattle »
- Heard of a K-shaped economy? You’re living in it now
- What the World Series can teach agents about consistency, coaching and closing
- 5 hot real estate technology trends
- How a Disney-inspired listing video turned heads (on a $0 budget)
- CoStar CEO Andy Florance says in earnings call Zillow is ‘under siege’
More from St. LouisMore posts in St. Louis »
- New LGBTQ+ Alliance president talks about ‘opportunity in the chaos’
- Northeast sees strongest price gains in Q3 as median single-family home price hits $426,800
- These are the 5 people who might replace Jerome Powell as Fed chair
- 7 low-inventory market strategies every agent should adopt in Q4
- More than half of metros stray from ‘balanced’ housing market
More from stocktonMore posts in stockton »
- Want a life of luxury? The 10 cities where it’s a relative bargain
- It’s getting harder to make money on a home sale: ATTOM
- ‘Great Reshuffling’ winds down as COVID hotspots and tech hubs cool
- Here are the 10 best (and worst) cities for women in real estate
- Home flipping climbs to 14-year high while returns hit 9-year low
More from The Urban Land InstituteMore posts in The Urban Land Institute »
More from ToledoMore posts in Toledo »
- Want a life of luxury? The 10 cities where it’s a relative bargain
- Here are the 10 best (and worst) cities for women in real estate
- House flipping rates decline while profit margins rise across the U.S.
- 26% of all mortgaged homes were equity-rich in first quarter
- How an Ohio agent is protecting her community — 1 mask at a time
Be First to Comment