Earlier research has shown that lender income and wealth constraint ratios discourage homeownership. This empirical …, the measured impact on the homeownership rate of the constraints falls to only 4 percentage points. Further, FHA loans are … estimated to increase homeownership by only 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points …

homeownership. The factors related to this increase are marriage, increased labor supply by married women, and gifts …

and homeownership. The cost of shelter is an important determinant of whether youth live independently (apart from parents … and other nonrelated adults), and the cost of homeownership relative to renting is important to the tenure decision … lowered the homeownership rate among young households by 23 percent, which is equivalent to slowing the time to first …