Unease in the Housing Market Amid a Worsening Affordability Crisis Tuesday, June 24, 2025 This year, the US housing market is shrouded in uncertainty. High home prices and interest rates have pushed sales to their lowest level in 30 years; insurance premiums and property taxes are on the... By CHRIS HERBERT
Aging The Number of People Living Alone in Their 80s and 90s is Set to Soar Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Over the next 20 years, the number of people in their 80s and 90s living alone will dramatically... By JENNIFER MOLINSKY
Rental Housing Digging Deeper into the Story: The Widespread Implications of the Growth in High Income Renters on Low- and Middle-Income Renter Households Wednesday, March 4, 2020 One of the major stories highlighted in our new America’s Rental Housing report is the growth in... By DANIEL MCCUE
Neighborhood Change National Politics, Neighborly Politics: The Impact of Trump’s Election on a Detroit Community Monday, March 2, 2020 While some researchers have studied how historical community transformations and neighborhood... By SHARON CORNELISSEN
Housing Markets & Conditions The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Update Monday, February 24, 2020 Last fall, I wrote a blog post entitled “ The Freddie Mac G-Fee Discount: Has the Single Security... By DON LAYTON
Demographics & Projections Losing Residents but Still Growing: How Migration and Population Change Affect Cities Thursday, February 20, 2020 When I present research on residential mobility and migration in the United States, people are often... By RIORDAN FROST
Rental Housing 10 Surprising Facts from America’s Rental Housing 2020 Tuesday, February 18, 2020 A few weeks after our research team has started digging into the data for a new report, we get... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions The GSEs and the Economic Cycle: Realistic Expectations Wednesday, February 12, 2020 “The GSEs should be fully buying mortgages at all times, regardless of the state of the economy or... By DON LAYTON
Aging High Levels of Mortgage Debt Are Associated with Lower Financial Well-Being Among Older Homeowners Monday, February 10, 2020 As documented in the Center’s recent report, Housing America’s Older Adults 2019, both the share of... By ALEXANDER HERMANN
Housing Markets & Conditions Demystifying GSE Credit Risk Transfer: How, and How Well, Does It Work? Monday, February 3, 2020 Beginning in 2013, the two government-sponsored enterprises, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, began to... By DON LAYTON
