Housing Market & Affordable Housing Stock

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Census Finds Ownership Vacancies at All-time High

The most recent Housing Vacancy Survey, released by the U.S. Census for the first quarter of 2008, shows that the vacancy rate for ownership units has risen to 2.9%, the highest since these data have been kept. Before the current downturn, the vacancy rate had never exceeded 2%. As a further…

A Quarterly Survey Looks At Effects of Mortgage Crisis on Apartment Industry

On February 7, 2008, the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) released its latest Quarterly Survey which shows that the current turmoil in the financial market is having mixed effects on the apartment industry. While it appears that sales volume is down and equity financing is less available, the…

Subdivision Requirements Found a Barrier to Affordable Housing

On January 7, 2008, HUD released a study that is the first to quantify, on a nationwide basis, the cost of excessive site development regulation on affordable housing. The objective of this study, conducted by the National Association of Homebuilders Research Center, was to determine whether…