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It's Tough Out There for Renters, But Most Americans Still Want More Options to Buy a Home
Just about everybody thinks they'd be better off with more housing to buy than more apartments to rent, according to the State of the City poll.
Few Americans today like their chances when it comes to renting an apartment. Chalk it up to the housing crisis or the credit crunch or the slow recovery. Blame it on the Google buses in the cities or rising poverty in the suburbs. Wherever you look, you're bound to find frustrated renters.
Yet it also appears that hardly anyone wants to do the thing that might alleviate rental stress: build more apartments. While more apartment buildings might give renters a wider range of housing options to suit their immediate needs, Americans are largely holding out to buy homes, according to respondents in the Atlantic Media/Siemens State of the City poll.