Housing Markets | PD&R EDGE

Throughout its history, the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has sought to understand the prevalence, causes, and consequences of housing insecurity...

In September 2023, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hosted two panels to discuss rental affordability as part of its ongoing “Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market” seminar series.

The Housing Market Indicators (HMI) report, a monthly public release providing information on national housing market conditions...

HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs: 2023 Report to Congress, its 19th biennial report, reveals that in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 8.53 million renter households had worst case housing...

This year marks not only 50 years of HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) but also 50 years of the American Housing Survey (AHS).

On June 21, 2023, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report.

Holi Urbas is the regional economist for the Seattle Regional Office for HUD's Economic and Market Analysis Division.

The American Housing Survey (AHS), the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States, is as old as HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).

Since 1997, the Housing Finance Analysis Division of the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) ...

With each passing day, data and research are becoming more enmeshed in the work of policymakers.

Each of HUD’s major program offices (Community Planning and Development, Housing, and Public and Indian Housing) oversee various programs that require operating parameters to govern the operations of each program.

The federal government’s analysis of local housing market conditions has its roots in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which Congress created in 1934 with the passage of the National Housing Act.

Sometime during the early 2000s, I attended a fundraiser for my children’s school.

Three years after the onset of COVID-19, the pandemic’s effects on the U.S. housing market and housing affordability continue to unfold.

On December 6, 2022, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) held a Quarterly Update event on institutional investors in housing.

New HUD PD&R Research Awards Aim to Shed Light on Evictions From HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program

In June 2022, the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) of Harvard University released its 35th annual housing report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2022, which assesses the current state of the housing market.

The Austin-Round Rocks, TX housing market area (Austin HMA) — coterminous with the Austin-Round Rocks, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) — is located in south-central Texas and includes Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties.

The Bremerton-Silverdale, Washington Housing Market Area (HMA) sits on the western shore of Puget Sound across from the city of Seattle.

The Grand Rapids-Wyoming, Michigan housing market area (Grand Rapids HMA) is in west central Michigan near the Lake Michigan coast.