High rent burdens how hitting the US heartland

Housing costs are slipping out of reach for the middle class in smaller and smaller cities across the U.S., the latest sign that the affordability crisis is moving inland.
According to new research by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, the biggest increases in “rent-burdened” households among big metropolitan areas came in places that are not coastal giants. Just look at where the five biggest increases of the rent-burdened — paying more than 30% of their income on r