household formation. We study whether such omission leads to a distorted assessment of trends and differentials in homeownership …. In the 1990s, many groups experienced a decline in household formation, which indirectly elevated the overall … homeownership rate by removing renters. Moreover, Asians have very low household formation but high homeownership rates, which are …

, employment, and housing opportunity. In the wake of intervening decades, the current paper applies data from 2000 to assess anew … the ongoing, limited access of black households to schooling, employment, and housing opportunities available outside …

population and housing, as shown by comparison of household formation and homeownership rates from 1960 to 2000. A further issue …Housing needs is a concept of central importance to state and local planning in the United States (Landis and LeGates … 2000). Roughly characterized as the number and type of housing units required to accommodate a population at a given …

¯ltering ofaging housing stock from one class to the next, deindustrialization and the accompa-nying loss of jobs for blue … with three dimensions of census tract datafrom Los Angeles County over a 60-year sample period { race/ethnicity, human capi …

prior analyses have focused largely on racial disparities in household financial characteristics, few studies have assessed … Angeles County; in contrast, the typical African-American household was nearly as likely to locate in South Central Los … Angeles as in other parts of the County. Further, the probability of white household moves to South Central Los Angeles was …

This paper examines the effect of space and race/ethnicity on labor force participation outcomes among minority and … the differences between first and second generation immigrants in addition to exploring the role of race and job … change the estimated impact of race and space on employment. The results of this study suggest that both space and race play …

Housing policy under the Clinton and Bush Administrations has sought to boost homeownership while also narrowing racial … Finances. Results indicate that household characteristics explain most of the increase in homeownership and roughly two …

In recent years, much of U.S. federal housing policy has focused on two complimentary goals: to increase U … household socioeconomic characteristics explain nearly all of the gain in homeownership in the 1990s. These factors also explain …

This paper applies Census microdata from 1980 and 1990 to assess the determinants of housing tenure choice among racial …

. It is though this mechanism that the stock of owner-occupied housing expands, though household formation and immigration …As a stated policy objective, the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment seeks to boost the national ….In this analysis, we focus on the role of interest rates on homeownership rates and the housing stock. In particular, we …