Apartment Supply Shortage

We need to build an average of 328,000 new apartments per year at a variety of price points to keep up with demand. We've only hit that mark three times since 1989.

Housing Affordability Toolkit

The Housing Affordability Toolkit helps guide discussions regarding specific housing affordability policies, tools, and incentives. It is divided into six sections and each section delves into a specific component of addressing the affordability challenge.

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What the U.S. can learn from rental housing markets across the globe?

NMHC’s Research Foundation seeks to answer this question in new research commissioned from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

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Estimating the Total U.S. Demand for Rental Housing

NMHC and NAA partnered with Hoyt Advisory Services to identify the demand for apartments through 2030. Read their analysis of the apartment industry.

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Local Housing Solutions

Understand the basics of affordable housing policy.

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