While energy consumption in new homes is decreasing thanks to stricter building codes, there is a dearth of performance standards for retrofits to older residences and those…
The modest population growth in many slow-growing US states not only masks significant racial and ethnic changes among residents, it also obscures significant changes in the…
Whenever the Census Bureau releases its annual population estimates, the press release and the coverage that follows invariably single out the fastest growing places. In…
Since families with children are primary drivers of household formation and housing consumption, changes in fertility rates can have significant impacts on housing markets.…
How should we define the baby boom, Generation X, and the millennial generation?
In a Joint Center blog published in 2012, I argued that using 20-year age spans for each…
Analyses of data used in a recent Census Bureau report show that homeownership rates for younger adult children of immigrants are substantially higher than rates for…
Our latest State of the Nation’s Housing report identifies the upswing in house prices since the Great Recession as one of the bright spots in the overall housing recovery,…
Today’s 41 million young adults age 25-34 have been slow to move into independent household formation and homeownership. Exactly how slowly and why, and what the future…
At my age, there is little that makes my jaw drop, especially while reading an article in one of my professional journals. However, this is exactly what happened when “…
We easily accept the proposition that the housing recovery will be greatest in parts of the country where population growth and job growth are occurring more rapidly. But we…
