Gary Geiler

May 13, 2024 | brookings.edu | Jenny Schuetz |Gary Geiler |Adrianna Pita

PITA: You’re listening to The Current, part of the Brookings Podcast Network. I’m your host, Adrianna Pita. While some measures of inflation have eased, housing costs remain high, with rising home buying costs, outpacing wage growth, and many renters, especially lower income earners, paying out unsustainably high proportions of their monthly income.