Affordability stories

• San Antonio: incomes not keeping up with housing costs
• Expensive to be poor in New Jersey
• Places where it takes years to save for a down payment
• Home prices stopped people from moving for better jobs

Affordability data

• American Community Survey at factfinder.census.gov
• HUD Housing Affordability Data

Construction stories

• Construction driving economic growth in most states
• Millennials drive apartment-building boom
• House flipping can create or destroy affordable housing

Construction data

• Census construction data
• Construction as a factor in GDP (economic growth) by state from Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Building permits -- local (county) or Census

Sales and price stories

• A new bubble? West coast shows signs
• Is a reckoning on the way for Seattle?
• Foreclosure and zombie houses -- still a problem in some states. Hard to document

Sales and price data

• The best possible is local -- county clerk or Multiple Listings
• Commercial providers fill a gap -- Zillow, ATTOM
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Stories Waiting To Be Told With Housing Data

Tim Henderson, Pew Stateline

thenderson@pewtrusts.org

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