Can New Suburban Housing Make Urban Areas More Affordable? Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Over the past thirty years, real home prices and rents in dense urban centers in the US grew more rapidly than housing costs in suburban metropolitan neighborhoods. At the same time, the vast majority... By VALENTINE GILBERT
Housing Markets & Conditions Harnessing the Potential of Manufactured Housing to Expand Entry-Level Homeownership Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Last year, James Shen, Chris Herbert and I co-authored a paper that showed that manufactured housing... By CHADWICK REED
Housing Markets & Conditions How Definitions Shape the Rural Housing Landscape Wednesday, February 7, 2024 In the United States, rural areas face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. While... By ALEXANDER HERMANN, WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Housing Markets & Conditions Estimating the National Housing Shortfall Monday, January 29, 2024 With home prices and rents hovering near record highs, and for-sale inventories and vacancies stuck... By DANIEL MCCUE, SOPHIE HUANG
Affordability Home Price-to-Income Ratio Reaches Record High Monday, January 22, 2024 In 2022, the median sale price for a single-family home in the US was 5.6 times higher than the... By ALEXANDER HERMANN, PEYTON WHITNEY
Affordability More Than 42 Million US Households Were Cost Burdened in 2022 Friday, January 19, 2024 The number of cost-burdened households in the US rose dramatically during the pandemic and in 2022... By PEYTON WHITNEY
Housing Markets & Conditions After Falling Last Year, Home Prices Are Rising Again Wednesday, November 29, 2023 After home prices fell during the latter half of 2022 and markets across the country cooled, prices... By PEYTON WHITNEY
Housing Markets & Conditions Herbert Hoover’s Department of Commerce and the Origins of US Housing Data Wednesday, October 11, 2023 In the years immediately following the First World War, economists in industry, government, and... By THOMAS SHAY HILL
Housing Markets & Conditions Home Prices and Interest Rates Still Rising, Shutting Out More Potential Homebuyers Thursday, September 28, 2023 Piling on top of steep jumps over the past year, both mortgage interest rates and home prices rose... By DANIEL MCCUE
Housing Markets & Conditions With Existing Inventories Historically Low, Homebuyers Turn to the New Home Market Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Despite the cooling housing market, inventories of existing homes for sale have barely budged from... By ALEXANDER HERMANN