At my age, there is little that makes my jaw drop, especially while reading an article in one of my professional journals. However, this is exactly what happened when “…
One of the major trends highlighted in the Joint Center’s recently released report America’s Rental Housing 2015 is the unprecedented growth in the number of renter…
Between 2004 and 2014, aggregate outstanding student loan debt has more than tripled in real value. Even as households shed other types of non-housing-related debt, student…
We easily accept the proposition that the housing recovery will be greatest in parts of the country where population growth and job growth are occurring more rapidly. But we…
Chris Herbert, Andrew Jakabovics
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September 21, 2015
Earlier today, Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies released Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015–2025, which…
One of the challenges faced by housing markets has been a persistent lack of inventory of homes for-sale. Indeed, the most recent data on existing home sales from the …
Housing demographers are often frustrated by data that range from inconsistent to totally unavailable when attempting to research demographic and housing trends. The…
Daniel McCue, George Masnick, Chris Herbert
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July 13, 2015
Once every ten years the decennial census provides a definitive count of people, households and housing units in the United States. During the intervening years, trends in…
One of the major challenges faced by housing analysts and demographers is the lack of consistency among various Census Bureau surveys. Particularly troublesome is the…
The US homeownership rate peaked in late 2004 and has been in a steady decline ever since, dropping 5.5 percentage points, according to the Housing Vacancy Survey. Annual…
