MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released a statement on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) blog post Friday morning on housing costs.
Tag: Housing Costs
Housing Has Affordability, Supply Challenges, Harvard Finds
Housing is currently prohibitively costly for millions of American households, per the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s State of the Nation’s Housing 2023 report
MBA Chart of the Week Mar. 31, 2023: Housing Cost Burden Rates by Income Level
In this week’s MBA Chart of the Week, we look at housing cost ratios by household income level, using data from the 2021 American Housing Survey.
MBA Chart of the Week, Dec. 9, 2022: Housing Cost Indices
Housing costs are – appropriately – getting a lot of attention. Part of that attention stems from affordability challenges heightened by recent rapid increases in home prices, interest rates and rents. Another part stems from the fact that shelter costs are such a significant driver of measures of inflation, and thus a key motivator of Federal Reserve policies. In this week’s Chart of the Week, we examine selected indices of housing costs.
MBA Chart of the Week, Dec. 9, 2022: Housing Cost Indices
Housing costs are – appropriately – getting a lot of attention. Part of that attention stems from affordability challenges heightened by recent rapid increases in home prices, interest rates and rents. Another part stems from the fact that shelter costs are such a significant driver of measures of inflation, and thus a key motivator of Federal Reserve policies. In this week’s Chart of the Week, we examine selected indices of housing costs.
MBA Chart of the Week Oct. 14 2022: Housing Costs
This week’s Chart of the Week highlights different measures of housing costs, all indexed to 2018. The lowest lines are the CPI measures of shelter costs, including the “’all-in” shelter measure and breakouts for rents and owners’ equivalent rents.
MBA Chart of the Week: Monthly Housing Cost as Percentage of Income
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week uses AHS data to show the distribution of total monthly housing costs as a percentage of income. T
MBA Chart of the Week: Monthly Housing Cost as Percentage of Income
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week uses AHS data to show the distribution of total monthly housing costs as a percentage of income. T