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This blog post expands on a previous blog post that examined housing cost burden across NC by focusing on the disparities between housing cost burden for homeowners and renters. In North Carolina, 66.8% of occupied housing units are owner-occupied, while 33.2% are renter occupied. According to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 2025 report, nationwide, rental demands have been steadily increasing in recent years. Rental demand is especially pronounced among people aged 35-44 (prime first-time…
In recent years, housing has become a hot-button issue both nationwide and in our state, as many people struggle to find secure, affordable housing options. David Rouse, Ben Hitchings, and Anita Brown-Graham of the UNC School of Government’s ncIMPACT Initiative wrote that the three main factors contributing to the national housing crisis are affordability, availability, and accessibility. In this post, we examine state and NC county trends in the first of these factors: housing affordability.…
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