Remodeling Spending to Tick Up Through Mid-Year 2025 Thursday, July 18, 2024 After a modest downturn, homeowner expenditures for improvements and repairs are expected to trend up through the first half of 2025, according to our latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity... By ABBE WILL
Affordability More Working Americans Struggling to Afford Housing Thursday, December 13, 2012 With growth in incomes lagging growth in housing and utility costs, the share of Americans spending... By ERIC BELSKY
Remodeling When it Comes to Home Remodeling, Younger Generations Aren’t Doing it Themselves Wednesday, December 5, 2012 In the world of home improvement activity, do-it-yourselfers (DIY) have become a very important... By KERMIT BAKER
Demographics & Projections Defining the Generations Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Demographers and other analysts have yet to reach a consensus about how we define post-WWII... By GEORGE MASNICK
Neighborhood Change The Promise of Big Data for Accelerating ‘Prosperity Development’ Monday, November 19, 2012 From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. This post was written by... By BEN HECHT
Housing Markets & Conditions Cities are Growing but Sprawl Continues Wednesday, November 14, 2012 The 2010 decennial Census provided new data to look at urban growth patterns over the past decade... By DANIEL MCCUE
Demographics & Projections Mind the Gap: The Importance of Over and Under Counts in Interpreting Decennial Census Results Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Every ten years the Decennial Census provides a definitive count of the country’s population and... By GEORGE MASNICK
Demographics & Projections The Resurrection of Household Growth: The Missing Link in the Housing Recovery Monday, November 5, 2012 New survey data released by the Census Bureau last week provides more strong evidence that the... By CHRIS HERBERT
Affordability Crafting a New Rental Policy: Lessons from US Housing Policy History Wednesday, October 31, 2012 As the United States continues to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great... By ALEXANDER VON HOFFMAN
Aging As Baby Boomers Age in Place, They Will Increase Their Influence in the Home Improvement Market Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Over the coming decade, the home improvement market will increasingly rely on older homeowners to... By KERMIT BAKER