First-time homebuyers increasingly include never-married households and newly-formed households, according to a new working paper I co-authored with Shannon Rieger and Sean…
Of the more than 77 million homeowners in the US, an estimated 22 million completed at least one home improvement project in 2017, according to our latest Improving America’s…
Smart home technology—widely understood as devices that enable remote control and/or monitoring of household systems—is expected to be a major area of growth for the…
Although homeownership rates rose for all racial and ethnic groups in 2016-2018, rates for black owners rose at a slower pace than for other groups. Consequently, the…
Annual gains in homeowner spending on improvements are expected to moderate across more than half of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas in 2019, according to new…
Homeownership has long been a central pillar of financial security for American families. However, the foreclosure crisis led many families and policymakers to revisit their…
The dramatic decline in the homeownership rate—from a high of 69 percent in 2004 to a low of 63 percent in 2016—has generated substantial discussion about the future of…
Americans are increasingly worried about the links between health and everyday environmental exposures in their homes, according to “Healthy Home Remodeling: Consumer Trends…
The share of US households facing housing cost burdens fell slightly last year, according to JCHS analysis of newly-released data from the 2017 American Community Survey. The…
With interest rates ticking upward in 2018 and the prospect of further rate increases to come, the era of historically-low mortgage rates may be ending. While many homeowners…