The Chattanooga Times Free Press had a story about the state of the rental market in Chattanooga that included some comments from CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall. The article recounts how the addition of thousands of new units over the past five years has been followed by a reduction in rents and more…
11/1/25: Opinion – UTC Rollins College Research Details How Local Housing Affordability Declined
Clint Cooper, the Free Press editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, wrote an opinion piece base on the most recent CRER white paper, “Housing Affordability Trends in Chattanooga.” The piece outlined many of the findings in the research, especially that the main obstacle to housing affordability is high mortgage rates. Mortgage rates are still…