W09-5: NOTE: Since the publication of this report, JCHS Household Growth Projections have been updated with new projections that supersede those found in the paper below…
UCC08-2: In The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs describes the poor as “… ready to act, both individually and collectively … hard working … [and having] a very…
Zhu Xiao Di, Ruby Henry, Eric Belsky, George Masnick
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July 1, 2005
W05-5: Minority growth in population and households, both in absolute numbers and relative share, has been one of the nation’s most important demographic changes over…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
W05-2: The property tax on housing is a major component of local government revenues and of consumers’ housing costs. This study uses newly available data from the 2001…
George Masnick, Zhu Xiao Di, Eric Belsky
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January 1, 2005
W05-1: Several roles that housing plays in the household economics of homeowners have begun to fundamentally change during the past decade. Cohorts approaching…
W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…
Ellen Seidman, Jennifer Tescher
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February 4, 2004
BABC 04-4: The paper argues that five factors have contributed to narrowing the gap between supply and demand: technological advances that lower costs and expand…
Zhu Xiao Di, Nancy McArdle, George Masnick
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February 15, 2001
This paper addresses several basic questions regarding second homes: what is or should be counted as a second home; how many second homes exist in the United States; where…
W01-4: Home ownership differentials are both a consequence and a cause of social inequality in the United States. Differences in income, wealth, education, family…