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Public source dossierAcademic paperHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
America's Rental Housing 2026
Public research report on U.S. rental housing conditions and renter cost burdens.
This dossier follows one source through the observatory without widening its stated scope.
Evidence topology
Where this source enters the observatory
3/7 direct domains · 0 normalized indicators · 1 market · 2024-2026Encoded row volume · log scaleExact counts shown
Public sourceAmerica's Rental Housing 2026Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies / 3 active routes / 2024-2026
- Record identityjchs-rental-housing-2026Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2026
- Source classAcademic paperAccessed Jun 21, 2026
- Encoded scope3 active routes4 direct / 0 indicator rows
- Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability
Evidence topology
Where this record enters the observatory
Definitions1market definitionsObservations1market observationsParticipants0Not encodedPolicy records0Not encodedReports2public reportsIndustries0Not encodedGeographies0Not encodedIndicators0Not encoded
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Market context
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Measurement releases
Definitions, observations, and participant rows
- Product boundary
- Rental housing access with affordability, supply, and selected institutional single-family rental ownership evidence
- Geographic boundary
- National affordability and supply indicators plus selected local ownership evidence
- Measurement basis
- Mixed public indicators rather than one firm-share distribution
- Denominator
- The relevant population or housing stock differs by source and is not combined into a single market denominator
Observation
HHI Not published / incomplete
22.7 million cost-burdened renter households / medium confidence
Participants
No participant rows in this release.
Confidence labels describe the observatory's use of linked measurement and definition rows. They are not grades for the publisher or the source as a whole.
Official record chronology
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No official policy record encoded
This source is not currently attached to an enforcement, inquiry, remedy, settlement, or agency-report event in the public chronology.
Research reuse
Public reports citing this record
Published report
Jul 19, 2026
The U.S. Competition Landscape
Read reportA national briefing that aligns defined-market signals, industry structure, state and local geographic concentration screens, merger activity, and enforcement records without collapsing their different scopes.
2022 and 2017 U.S. Economic Census industry concentration tables, USDA ERS historical meatpacking CR4, KFF 2024 state individual-market HHI, FDIC 2025 statewide and county Summary of Deposits screens, the FY2025 FTC/DOJ HSR report, and source-backed market and enforcement records.
Published report
Jun 21, 2026
Housing Competition Needs Local Ownership Data
Read reportAn open brief explaining why housing affordability and supply stress require local competition data before HHI can be responsibly reported.
Harvard JCHS renter cost-burden data, Freddie Mac supply-shortage estimate, GAO selected single-family rental investor ownership data, and FTC/DOJ roll-up inquiry materials.
Industry observatory
NAICS concentration evidence
No NAICS industry rows encoded
This source does not back the Census national industry-concentration tables in the current release. Its other evidence-domain counts remain independently inspectable.
Citation custody
The record behind the rows
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, America's Rental Housing 2026, released March 2026.
Public research report on U.S. rental housing conditions and renter cost burdens.
Canonical source citation
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, America's Rental Housing 2026, released March 2026. Available at https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/press-releases/new-report-finds-cooling-rental-markets-affordability-crisis-deepens-renters. Accessed Jun 21, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record jchs-rental-housing-2026: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/jchs-rental-housing-2026
- Publisher
- Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Access date
- Jun 21, 2026
- License note
- Public university research report
- Archive
- No archive URL recorded
Source-scoped data packet
Reusable public endpoints
1
Source record
Citation, publisher, access, and license
1
Definitions
Product, geography, denominator, and limits
1
Observations
HHI, market size, status, and methodology
0
Participants
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0
Official records
Dated enforcement and policy chronology
0
Named edges
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0
Event windows
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2
Reports
Published observatory work citing this source
Interpretation boundary
Use the source at its encoded scope
A source dossier documents how this observatory uses one public record. It does not endorse every claim in that record, make unlike measures comparable, or extend the source beyond its stated product, geography, population, and vintage.