The American Housing Survey (AHS) is the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States. Since 2009, AHS has included six core disability questions used in the American Community Survey. The questions address hearing, visual, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care, and independent...

Ein großer Teil des Leerstands im Einfamilienhaussegment lässt sich durch strukturelle Regionsmerkmale erklären. Das Ausmaß des Leerstands in einer Gemeinde hängt darüber hinaus von den baulichen Eigenschaften ab, die den Einfamilienhausbestand der Region charakterisieren. Dabei kommt es...

'People in the EU: who are we and how do we live?' draws on the results of the population and housing census that was conducted across the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 2011. In addition, the publication presents a...

'People in the EU: who are we and how do we live?' draws on the results of the population and housing census that was conducted across the Member States of the European Union (EU) and the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 2011. In addition, the publication presents a...

This report uses data from the American Housing Survey (AHS) to analyze changes in household composition from the 2003 survey through the 2009 survey (hereafter, from 2003 to 2009), particularly those changes that reflect an increase in doubled-up households. The term "other household member" is...

This report uses data from the American Housing Survey (AHS) to analyze changes in household composition from the 2003 survey through the 2009 survey (hereafter, from 2003 to 2009), particularly those changes that reflect an increase in doubled-up households. The term “other household...

Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009 and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in...

Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...

A decrease in home values should make the purchase of new homes attractive to potential buyers. However, many home buyers rely on the sale of a previous home for the down payment on their new purchase. The decline in home prices between 2005 and 2009 is associated with a 40.0% reduction in the...

The American Housing Survey (AHS) added six questions about disability in the 2009 survey. The questions were taken from the American Community Survey (ACS) and the same questions have been used in other Federal surveys. This report compares the treatment of disability in the AHS with these and...

Amendments to the Fair Lending Act have exempted an age restriction on ownership from fair housing prohibitions. This paper studies the economic impact of such ownership restriction on housing values. Using American Housing Survey data, we find that there is a significant premium attached to the...

Statistical methods of spatial analysis are often successful at either prediction or explanation, but not necessarily both. In a recent paper, Dearmon and Smith (2016) showed that by combining Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) with Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA), a modeling framework could be...