About the National Rental Housing Landscape

The National Rental Housing Landscape, released annually by the NYU Furman Center, examines rental housing trends in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. The study includes all 53 U.S. metros with over one million people in 2015, which contained 165 million people (65 million households) and covered 63% of the U.S. population. 

The 2017 National Rental Housing Landscape observes trends and makes available data on renter demographics, renter households, renter housing affordability, and the rental housing stock for each of the 53 metro areas in the sample.