Affordable Housing are Vouchers the Answer
Low-income housing programs that work: Part I In several previous posts, we discussed the issue of housing affordability, as well as several policies and programs that purport to address the...
I believe you have my stapler...
A journey through office space from Babylonian scribes to Milton Waddams to Apple’s ‘mothership’ Office work probably began about 3,000 BCE as Babylonian scribes recorded business transactions on clay...
What's the Latest Angle on Housing Prices?
Market directions in key metropolitan areas tell a complex story We constructed real housing price indexes for 233 metropolitan areas, quarterly, from 1990 to 2017, combining hedonic and repeat-sales...
Will the Coast Ever be Clear?
Hurricanes, housing and climate change: Risks and responses Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are just the latest in a long history of cyclones and other extreme weather events that cost lives, real estate...
Housing market trends? Cue the statisticians
Growth, stagnation or decline: why it could break any way This post follows up on our previous blog that provided an overview of the measurement of residential rents and values, and discussed recent...
Housing prices: The ins and outs
Stocks, flows and the impact of housing prices on CPI and inflation We extend discussions of inflation and changes in relative prices from previous posts, focusing on housing prices. Specifically, we...
The Price is Right - or is it?
Taking a longer run look at inflation and relative prices Executive Summary: We extend several recent blog posts by taking a longer run look at inflation, and relative prices. We explain why the Fed...
Seeing the big picture on employment?
Today we’ll examine the “employment elephant” one more time! Executive Summary: Today we’ll examine the “employment elephant” one more time. First, we’ll return to state data, documenting some key...
Missing the Elephant in the Room
As in the old parable, how we understand employment data depends on what we see Executive Summary: Today we’ll continue our look at employment data, in several of its many guises. We’ll briefly...
The one constant: variation?
Income and employment growth is a different animal in every state Executive Summary: Over time, as Julia Coronado showed last week, recent unemployment rates vary by more than a factor of 2, from 4...