The Dynamics of America's Housing

This is the long-awaited update of the authors' classic America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. The first version has long been the most authoritative effort in the field. Now this brief, efficient, one-volume work contains all the most up-to-date data available to chart housing progress and need. Forecasts on future demographics, production trends, and changes in markets are clearly presented for the use of students and practitioners. More than 100 tables help summarize the current reality in a convenient, simple format. The major chapter topics indicate the comprehensiveness of the coverage: The Demographic Framework; Housing Demand: The Population Baseline; The Household Revolution; The Maturing Society and Market Segmentation; Future Households: Scale and Shape; Income: Accelerator and Brake; Housing Supply: The Potent Baseline; Housing Production Cycles; Regional Shifts Revisited; Housing Cost Structures; New Mortgage Realities; Components of Inventory Change; Scale, Condition, and Amenity; Demand-Supply Interrelationships; Housing to Come