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Following the rise and fall in the homeownership rate over the past two decades, considerable uncertainty exists about the future trajectory of the homeownership rate. This…

This report shows that the number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent is expected to rise at least 11 percent from 11.8 million to 13.1…

Homeowners have long sought debt relief in the federal bankruptcy courts, but they take different paths to reach that point. For some, home mortgage problems are a…

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.…

W08-5: A principal finding from the Revisiting Rental Housing Symposium convened by the Joint Center for Housing Studies in November 2006 is that a great deal has been…

W07-7: This paper examines the challenges of projecting the long-run sustainable demand for new residential construction and presents a range of estimates for the likely…

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…

W06-7: This paper examines changes in the population of 50 of the largest cities in New England and groups them into what have become the conventional categories of long…

W06-5: This paper examines the determinants of the ownership of multiple homes and the influence of multiple-homeownership on the income elasticity of housing demand. It…

Much of homeownership research and policy focuses on financial or information barriers that might frustrate low-income renter households from buying a home. Given existing…