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Housing Affordability

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Housing Affordability

This series reports changes in housing affordability for families and individuals (both owners and renters) at different price levels, chances of affordability by demographic characteristic, and reasons why people cannot afford a home.

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Housing Affordability Data Tables
Stats displayed in columns and rows with title, ID, notes, sources and release date. Many tables are in downloadable XLS, CVS and PDF file formats.
Housing Affordability Publications
Official publications released by the U.S. Census Bureau have a report number and often list the lead author(s).
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Publications

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Publication
Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2009?
May 2013
The seventh in a series attempting to measure changes in homeownership affordability for families and unrelated individuals (current owners & current renters).
Publication
Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2004?
May 2009
This publication is from Housing Affordability 2004
Publication
Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?
July 2007
In 2002, about 56 percent (+/–0.7) of American families could afford to purchase a modestly priced home or condominium in the state where they lived.

Tables

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Table
Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2009?: Detailed Tables
May 2013
These tables are from Housing Affordability 2009.
Table
Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2004?: Detailed Tables
May 2009
These tables are from Housing Affordability 2004.
Table
Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?: Detailed Tables
July 2007
These tables are from Housing Affordability 2002.

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Press Release
American Housing Survey Statistics for Selected Metropolitan Areas
January 05, 2017
Summary tables from the 2015 American Housing Survey for the 15 largest metropolitan areas and 10 additional metropolitan areas.

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Housing Patterns

Data on residential housing pattern measures, includes dissimilarity, isolation, absolute centralization and spatial proximity indexes.

Housing Vacancies

Housing vacancy data from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) are available on American FactFinder.

New Housing (Construction)

Construction covers national and regional data on the number of new housing units authorized by building permits.

Rental Housing

Housing inventory estimates and characteristics of renter occupied housing units are available for all levels all geography down to the Census tract level.

Residential Financing

Mortgage data includes: financial characteristics of housing units with and without a mortgage, mortgage status by age of householder, and more.

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