Recent data points to a paucity of housing for low- and moderate-income residents in the hot Bay Area housing market. How is California’s Housing and Community Development Department planning to address this problem?
Read More »The Changing Middle-Class Household Demographics
Metro areas are made up of people across the income spectrum. Find out where the majority of middle-class families reside, and what drives them to live there.
Read More »Delinquencies Remain Low But Household Debt Rises
Household debt rose to record highs according to the quarterly household debt and credit report released by the New York Fed. What is the share of mortgages in this increasing debt?
Read More »Homeownership Gets a Boost from Young Americans
The homeownership rate ticked up slightly from last year, prompted by a jump in millennial owners, according to a Census Bureau survey. Here are some of the factors that are driving more buyers from this generation to purchase a house.
Read More »The Consumers vs. Home Prices
The latest Consumer Expectations survey released by the Federal Reserve of New York has found that household expectations about income earnings and spending growth remain robust. But what are consumers saying about home price changes?
Read More »The Housing Market Remains Healthy … For Now
A study analyzing the housing market's overall trends has given a neutral outlook for the near term. Here are some of the headwinds that are likely to impact the market by the end of the year.
Read More »Three-Decade Study Finds Young Households in a Bad Place
A look at how the U.S. housing market has grown over the past 30 years paints a sobering picture of imbalance, particularly for younger and poorer Americans.
Read More »HUD Celebrates National Homeownership Month
On Thursday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development kicked off National Homeownership Month with a new media campaign and a look at the state of the market in 2018.
Read More »The Evolution of Housing Wealth
What are the shifts in the distribution of housing wealth and how has it evolved after the Great Recession? A research by the New York Fed found some compelling answers.
Read More »Housing Optimism Resilient to Storms
A growing percentage of Americans, especially those in the West, view housing as a good investment despite recent natural disasters.
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