Although federal guidelines allow foreclosed homes to be sold with occupants, in a recently published article in Housing Policy Debate, I report that the guidelines are…
Despite the private for-profit sector’s importance in affordable housing development, there has been relatively little research on the sector. Many researchers working on…
Note: Other single-family housing includes attached units and manufactured housing. Source: Tabulations of the 2000-2013 American Community Survey.
According to the Census…
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,…
Last December, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development released the latest figures on the percentage of affordable housing in each of the state’s…
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,…
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…