Data are for 25 metros available in the 2017 AHS, including the 15 largest by population. Size of dot corresponds to aggregate home improvement spending within each metro...
Moderately (severely) cost-burdened households pay 30–50% (more than 50%) of income for housing. Households with zero or negative income are assumed to have severe burdens,…
While the story varied across metro areas, the situation for lowest-income renters worsened in almost all of them. The most common trend – a declining supply of low-cost…
Some have argued that a “back-to-the-city movement” is bringing back America’s cities. Others have disagreed, pointing instead to more rapid population growth in the suburbs.
This map projects that improvement spending by homeowners will increase in all 50 metros this year, and increase by at least 5 percent in 41 of the 50 metros. Moreover…
