The number of cost-burdened renter households has reached a new record high, further deepening the affordability challenge that accelerated during the pandemic. Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, a Senior Research Associate at the Center and co-author of a new research brief that updates our America’s Rental Housing 2024 report, will explain how longstanding disparities in who experiences cost burdens have persisted and that the need to tackle these challenges through effective policies and subsidies is even more urgent.