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Data Show a Surge in Multi-Generational Households

Results from a Pew Research Center study released in March indicate a sharp increase in multi-generational family households in the United States in recent decades. In 1980, 28 million Americans, or just 12% of the population, lived in multigenerational households. By 2008, that…

Survey: Increase in Renters and Rental Units, No Decline in Vacancies

The housing market did not begin to work off its inventory of vacant for-rent and for-sale homes in the last quarter of 2009, according the most recent data from the Housing Vacancy Survey, released by the U.S. Census Bureau on February 2.  Overall, 85.5% of all housing units in the country…