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Since families with children are primary drivers of household formation and housing consumption, changes in fertility rates can have significant impacts on housing markets.…

For the first time in decades, the number and share of Americans moving to another state may be rising. Moreover, as our new interactive tools show, the increases are due in…

As we turn the calendar to 2018, we took a moment to look back at the past year to see what were the most popular articles in our Housing Perspectives blog. The top five…

Asking “what would it take”—about housing segregation or any other challenge— assumes, on some level, that we have adequate agreement that some condition or…

Almost 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, what would it take to meaningfully reduce residential segregation and/or mitigate its negative consequences in the…

Compared to children who do not move to a new home, children who move are more likely to do worse in school, have more physical and mental health problems, and are more…

A substantial number and share of older Americans are living in “multigenerational” households, according to our analysis of recently released 2015 American Community Survey…

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…

Within 20 years, one in five Americans—almost 80 million people—will be older than 65 and, surveys indicate, they will want to remain in the current homes for as long as…

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…