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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, what would it take to meaningfully reduce residential segregation and/or to mitigate its negative consequences…
Since families with children are primary drivers of household formation and housing consumption, changes in fertility rates can have significant impacts on housing markets.…