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Piling on top of steep jumps over the past year, both mortgage interest rates and home prices rose again in mid-2023, further eroding affordability for homebuyers and leaving…

W09-4: This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years to show that houses sold after foreclosure, or close in time to…

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…

RR07-13: The effect of local land use regulations on housing markets has been the subject of extensive research and discussion among both urban economists and…

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…

The persistently wide homeownership rate gaps between Black, Hispanic, and white households mean that households of color are disproportionately excluded from the many…

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…