In the Birmingham-Hoover metro, 30,000 homeowners (9.6 percent) are cost burdened and 28,000 (9.1 percent) are severely cost burdened, according to the report.Canva stock image
Nearly 30% of households in the Birmingham-Hoover metro area – over 100,000 households - are burdened by the cost of keeping a roof over their heads, according to a recent Harvard study.
Local and national experts have suggested increasing affordable housing supply, loosening zoning restrictions, and adaptive reuse as ways to alleviate this struggle.
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