Most High Housing-Cost Municipalities Added Fewer Units Than Their Regions

Municipal median housing value as a share of metropolitan area median housing value

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing that many in-demand municipalities added less housing than their regions between 2000 and 2020.

Notes: Change in housing units from 2000 to 2020. Includes data only for municipalities with constant geographies between 2000 and 2020, and in metropolitan areas with an increasing number of housing units during that time.

Chart: Urban Institute Source: Yonah Freemark, Homing In (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2022).