Data Reveals that Median Housing Values and Local Property Tax Bases Have a Positive Relationship, But Tax Bases Outperform Housing Housing values are important not only for home owners and prospective buyers, but also for local governments. They are an important...
Housing & Real Estate
Housing Values Reverse Course – Cities Mix of Winners and Losers
Richard Ciccarone presents data and notes on trends in housing values Owner occupied housing values benefited from an uptick in 2015, bucking the trend of four years of successive declines nationally. By no means ubiquitous, some...
Inclusionary Zoning: Creating Effective Housing Policy Through Harnessing Private Market Activity
New Report Shows How Inclusionary Zoning Can Help Produce Strong Mixed Housing Markets In the United States today, nearly ten million households pay more than half their income for housing. Cities enact policies to foster economic development and affordable housing...
Infrastructure Digest: Investments and Policy in Our Cities and States
MuniNet Guide's August Infrastructure Digest provides some of the more notable news stories relating to state & local infrastructure investments, involving transportation, environmental sustainability, energy, and economic development. Developer seeks...
Economic Indicators Erratic and Uneven Growth among U.S. States
by guest contributor Bradford Langs Now in its seventh year, the U.S. economic recovery (which began in July 2009) has been deemed modest at best. Both gross domestic product (GDP) and job growth remain erratic and uneven overall - particularly among states. Regarding...
Trends in Urban Development: Planning Ideas in the New Millennium
Like anything else in history, urban planning trends come and go with the times. The flight to the suburbs began in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued through the end of the century. But as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, infill development in...
Economic Indicators 2014 Year-End Data Reveals Uneven Recovery
The U.S. economic recovery is now almost six years old (June 2009 was the final month of the recession). This recovery has been deemed weak, with both GDP and job growth remaining both erratic and uneven. Unemployment levels have declined to a sub 6% level from a 10%...
Looking for an Expensive House? Go West…
By Mardee Handler, managing editor California is home to four of the five most expensive housing markets"
What Have We Learned from the Great Home Real Estate Recession?
by guest contributor, Peter Fugiel, Ph.D. The U.S. Owner-Occupancy Rate is a Stubborn Fact of Life, Changing Slowly over Time The 1950’s suburbia craze of building mostly detached units was the one real exception in the housing sector. Homeownership rates in the U.S....
State Governments Ready to Reposition Shadow and REO Inventories
by guest contributor, Peter Fugiel, Ph.D.The current housing price recovery in U.S. housing markets is being blocked from any full recovery by the continuing huge lender inventories of late and very late home loans. While the upscale and severely distressed...