The number of households missing rent and mortgage payments reached the lowest level in March since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA).
It’s not just urban dwellers who have faced difficulties paying the rent during the past year as the pandemic upended the economy. Renters in rural New England have faced many of the same affordability challenges, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Nearly a hundred people from several tenants rights’ groups gathered across from Boston City Hall to raise awareness about the lack of affordable housing in Boston and declare a “renters’ state of emergency” yesterday.
