The primary sources of contemporary lead exposure are chipping paint, water pipes, and lead remaining in soil from gasoline exhaust and smelting plants. Household lead paint…
Note: Other single-family housing includes attached units and manufactured housing. Source: Tabulations of the 2000-2013 American Community Survey.
According to the Census…
The recent dramatic increase in the number of single-family detached rental homes, which is due in part to foreclosures of single-family homeowners and constrained lending…
Every spring, the Census Bureau publishes estimates of the population as of the prior July 1st at the sub-county level (i.e., individual municipalities, incorporated places,…
According to the Census Bureau, the national homeownership rate dropped again in the second quarter of this year, to 63.4 percent. This level represents a nearly 50 year low…
The homeownership rate for young adults ages 25 to 34, which rose from 45 percent in the mid-1990s to a high of 50 percent in 2004, fell to 40 percent as of last year,…
W15-2: Changing socio-demographic characteristics of young adult households (those with householders ages 25 to 34) are having an impact on their propensities for…
The Census Bureau recently released its 2014 Q4 Housing Vacancy Survey(HVS) data, giving us a complete look at the boom and bust in homeownership rates over the last 20 years…
In conversations about the declining homeownership rate in the U.S., some commentators have pointed to declines in the share of married people as an important contributing…
In a previous post, I described recent research about drivers of decisions to own homes, with emphasis on the role of behavioral factors. That research confirmed that there…
