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Local

Regional Housing Solutions identifies the geography and characteristics of eight distinct subregional housing markets across northeastern Illinois, as well as recommends strategies for addressing housing challenges in those submarkets.

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning’s Community Data Snapshots summarize demographics, housing, employment, transportation habits, retail sales, property values, and land use in metropolitan Chicago’s 284 municipalities. Snapshots are also available for all 77 Chicago Community Areas.

National

The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Out of Reach 2020 report compares wages and rents throughout the U.S., showing that rental housing continues to be out of reach for millions of low-wage workers. In Illinois, full-time workers need to earn more than $21 per hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment.

Reports

Local

The Institute for Housing Studies’ 2019 State of Rental Housing in Cook County report updates key data on changing rental demand, the supply of rental housing, and how these dynamics affect access to affordable rental housing for Cook County’s lowest income households.

Woodstock Institute’s 2018 Community Lending Fact Book identifies local mortgage and small business lending trends in the City of Chicago, Chicago’s 77 community areas, and the seven-county region of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties.

Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University’s Overview of Chicago’s Housing Market features data and information commissioned by the City of Chicago to guide conversations around developing Chicago’s Five-Year Housing Plan.

National

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ State of the Nation’s Housing 2019 Report documents how housing production is struggling to keep up with household growth and eroding affordability for middle- and low-income households in many markets.

The Urban Institute’s Housing Finance at a Glance reference guide provides mortgage and housing market data, including updated figures describing housing credit availability, national mortgage affordability, and the percentage of first-time homebuyers.Resources

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