Market Analysis

Responding to this need for better coordinated Federal rental policy, the White House’s Domestic Policy Council established the interagency Rental Policy Working Group in 2010.

The White House’s Rental Policy Working Group (a joint effort between the White House, HUD, the IRS and USDA RD) has issued its preliminary administrative alignment recommendations.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the 2011 2nd Quarter Housing Market Conditions Report.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research is managing a Congressionally mandated study of the housing needs of Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.

On Thursday, August 25, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) released the 2012 real estate analysis rules for public comment.

HUD has released the August 2011 edition of ResearchWorks, the official online newsletter from HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research.

The Virginia Housing Development Authority has scheduled a Market Analyst Forum on Wednesday, September 14 in Belvidere. The forum will begin promptly at 10 a.m. and last approximately 1.5 hours. The focus of this discussion will be changes to VHDA’s market study guidelines and processes beginning in 2012.

The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) released the first draft of its 2012 QAP as well as a draft of the 2012 Definitions and Amenities for Housing Program Activities.

On Monday August 22, 2011, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issued an updated version of its Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) Guide. The was updated in response to a significant increase in demand for FHA insured multifamily development loans for the current fiscal year. This year alone, the FHA has insured almost 1,100 loans nearing $10.5 billion, which is about seven times greater than the demand for FHA insured loans from three years ago. In order to meet this new demand, the new guide will help expedite and better manage the processing of new loan applications.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Commerce stated that total housing starts for the month of July dropped 1.5 percent but starts on multi-family housing projects increased by 7.8 percent to 179,000 units.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released a white paper that proposes options for the uses and flexibility of the new data sample for the 2015 American Housing Survey (AHS).

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research has released the latest U.S. Housing Market Conditions report for the second quarter of 2011.