In recent years, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Consumer Credit Panel (FRBNY CCP), which provides quarterly data on outstanding loans using individual consumer credit…
Last week, the Federal Reserve released its 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, a triennial survey which gives a rare, detailed look at the assets and debts as well as incomes…
As highlighted in our new State of the Nation’s Housing report, the national homeownership rate declined for the 9th straight year in 2013 and now stands at its lowest point…
The U.S. housing recovery should regain its footing, but also faces a number of challenges, concludes The State of the Nation’s Housing report released today by the Joint…
Today, the Joint Center for Housing Studies posted its latest household projections. These new projections incorporate several updates to data that were made since our last…
In a previous post, I suggested that elderly baby boomers may be less likely, in the future, to move to newly built “senior” housing in the numbers that many housing analysts…
Although household growth is the major driver of housing demand, getting an accurate picture of recent trends in this measure is difficult, especially when Census surveys…
On November 25 the Census Bureau released its latest package of tables describing American families and living arrangements. These tables highlight the growing complexity of…
The U.S. fertility rate is at near replacement level, where a woman bears two children over her lifetime (just enough to ‘replace’ herself and her partner). The Total…
