Housing Market & Affordable Housing Stock

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  • Market: Rental and homeownership, market preferences, manufactured housing, multifamily housing.
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Housing Market & Affordable Housing Stock Resources

HUD Report Details Where Housing Comes from and Where it Goes

HUD released on May 7 a report describing how the U.S. Housing Stock changed from 2005 to 2007; specifically, the loss and gain of housing units. For example, the report finds that 115,000 units that were occupied in 2005 had been become nonresidential units by 2007, an…

Housing Vacancy Survey Shows Housing Market Transition Continues

Housing Vacancy Survey results from the first quarter of 2009 indicate that the U.S. housing market continues to undergo a significant transition, experiencing a rising number and proportion of renters, and rising asking rents even as the total number of vacant properties…

Metropolitan Residential Construction Increasing in the Central City

The Environmental Protection Agency published a March 2009 report analyzing the shift in geography of residential construction. Using building permit data, the research concludes that from 1990 to 2007 residential development increased dramatically within the central city and its core suburbs in…