Housing affordability is a key policy concern and an important factor in fostering sustainable homeownership. Housing … insurance are estimated to be less than six percent of the cost of homeownership …

The future of American homeownership is being pushed in contradictory directions by demographic changes. The aging of … the Baby Boomers would support higher levels of homeownership, but the increasing minority share of the population and the … persistent racial gap in homeownership acts to reduce homeownership. Layered on top of these demographics is an uncertain …

implications of homeownership. After controlling for income, housing quality and health, female homeowners are not better off than …

ease of credit access among borrowers explains the divergence in investment homeownership seen in the data. This divergence …

homeownership in Japan. We find that although both rural and urban households with higher incomes are more likely to transition to … homeownership, access in rural areas is more equally distributed over various income groups. Since most of the previous empirical …, whereas in rural areas homeownership is more equally distributed. Nonetheless, given the relatively low levels of household …