The U.S. is facing a housing affordability crisis, and new data from Realtor.com highlight an often missed contributing factor: millions of empty bedrooms. Census data reveal 31.8 million "excess ...

They then subtracted one from that number, acknowledging that a spare bedroom is often used as an office or storage space. In 2023, the number of empty bedrooms nationwide reached 31.9 million ...

a concurrent trend has been a steep rise in the number of homes in the Seattle area with more bedrooms than people. Census data shows there’s been an increase in what are likely “empty-nest ...