Single-family zoning has a target on its back. Long condemned for creating suburban sprawl and excluding Black Americans, immigrants, and low-income people from residential…
The homeownership rate, among the thousands of statistics that the government produces to describe the country’s economic and social health, has an exalted place among…
Among the thousands of statistics that the government produces to describe the country’s economic and social health, the homeownership rate has an exalted place among…
The Census Bureau’s Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) is widely used to track trends in US homeownership rates, vacancy rates, and household growth on a quarterly basis throughout…
Black homeowners not only have primary mortgages with higher interest rates than white homeowners with similar incomes, they also have higher interest rates than white…
The newly released American Community Survey (ACS) shows a continued decrease in cost burdens in 2019. While the share of all homeowners that were cost-burdened (spending…
The Census Bureau released its Q2 2020 Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) estimates on July 28. Housing analysts look to this survey each quarter not just for its estimate of the…
Owning a home has the potential to provide older adults with higher levels of financial security, housing stability, and housing quality. Given that a large majority of older…
A new series of Issue Briefs authored by Rachel Bratt, a Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and former visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve…
