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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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Publication

Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?

July 01, 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.
Publication

Housing Costs of Homeowners: 2000

September 01, 2003

This report, using Census 2000 data, examines mortgage status and selected monthly owner costs for specified owner-occupied housing units.
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Housing Costs of Renters: 2000

May 01, 2003

This report, using Census 2000 data, examines gross rent and gross rent as a percentage of household income in 1999 for specified renter-occupied housing units.

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Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?: Detailed Tables

July 01, 2007

These tables are from Housing Affordability 2002.
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Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 1993?: Detailed Tables

January 01, 1995

These tables are from Housing Affordability 1993.
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Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2009?: Detailed Tables

May 01, 2013

These tables are from Housing Affordability 2009.

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Celebrate the American Housing Survey’s 50th Anniversary

September 25, 2024

Today the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. HUD released new housing data from the 2023 AHS, marking half a century of housing insights.
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Nearly Half of Renter Households Are Cost-Burdened

September 12, 2024

Over 21 million renter households spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs in 2023.
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Carga excesiva de costos en mitad de los hogares que alquilan vivienda

September 12, 2024

Cerca de la mitad de los hogares que alquilan una vivienda tienen una carga excesiva de costos; los porcentajes varían según la raza

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Housing Affordability

Reports changes in housing affordability for families and individuals at different price levels and chances of affordability by demographic characteristic.
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.