Articles tagged 'Rental Housing'

Written to inform the development of the City's 2014-2018 Five Year Housing Plan, the Overview of the Chicago Housing Market contains a comprehensive set of maps, charts, and tables meant to both provide background data for the city's housing plan and a comprehensive view of neighborhood housing markets. This book was used to facilitate advisory group discussions of the housing market needs of Chicago’s neighborhoods and to craft the new Five-Year Housing Plan that will guide the City’s policy and investment related to housing from 2014 to 2018.

Among the key findings from IHS’s recently released State of Rental Housing in Cook County report was that while the supply of rental units in Cook County increased between 2007 and 2011 to meet observed increases in rental demand, the gap between the supply of and the demand for rental housing affordable for lower-income...

On April 18, IHS brought together a diverse group of more than 40 housing stakeholders to DePaul’s Loop Campus to preview and discuss the findings of our 2013 State of Rental Housing in Cook County report. The event allowed us to collect insights on how our findings relate to the...

The Housing Market Conditions Report is released in conjunction with the annual update of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal. This edition of the report uses a lens of housing market health to focus on differences in housing indicator activity in different types of markets broken out by long-term price trends.

In the wake of the housing crisis, the need for a sufficient supply of quality, affordable, and stable rental housing has become increasingly important. The newest release of The State of Rental Housing in Cook County examines shifting patterns of renter and owner occupancy in Cook County from 2000 to 2011 with a focus on the period from 2007 to 2011. It looks at shifts in rental demand in Cook County, the changing nature of the supply of rental housing, and how these dynamics are impacting access to affordable rental housing for the lowest-income households.