On September 28, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, reported its monthly index of house…
W07-3: Despite many efforts to model house prices in the United States, reliably predicting when, and by how much, house prices will fall remains an elusive goal. Most…
Elizabeth La Jeunesse, Alexander Hermann, Daniel McCue, Jonathan Spader
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September 17, 2019
Housing affordability has been a growing concern across the US over the past three decades. Indeed, between 1990 and 2017, the number of units renting for under $600…
Our 2023 State of the Nation’s Housing report shows that while the growth in home prices and rents has slowed, housing costs are still high and record numbers of renters are…
Our annual State of the Nation’s Housing report aims to encapsulate a year’s worth of trends and issues in housing policy, market trends, household growth and composition,…
One of the major stories highlighted in our new America’s Rental Housing report is the growth in high-income renter households. After not growing between 1990 and 2004, the…
Daniel McCue, Raheem Hanifa, Chris Herbert
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March 22, 2023
The persistently wide homeownership rate gaps between Black, Hispanic, and white households mean that households of color are disproportionately excluded from the many…
The homeownership rate – currently around 65 percent, a level first reached half a century ago – is broadly regarded by policymakers as a core measure of whether the US…
In the course of preparing our annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, we identify several especially noteworthy trends and data points. Because the report covers such a…
