Aerial view of suburban American homes

America’s housing crisis has reached a tipping point. No longer limited to the coasts, cities and metropolitan areas across the country are experiencing a supply crunch, rising rents, and tough questions about housing attainability. To navigate the nation through this volatile and complex period, the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, in partnership with Accelerator for America, launched the National Housing Crisis Task Force (Addressing America’s Housing Crisis | National Housing Crisis Task Force) in July 2024, an ambitious, two-year project. The Task Force, co-chaired by Republican Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Democratic Mayors Andre Dickens (Atlanta) and Justin Bibb (Cleveland) and Fifth Third Bank executive Susan Thomas, is a bipartisan, multisectoral effort meant to address the most challenging components of the housing crisis today. The work of the National Housing Crisis Task Force builds off previous research conducted by the Nowak Metro Finance Lab into the changing nature of America’s housing market today.