Market Analysis

Freddie Mac recently released its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for August 2011, which indicates that, despite the recent ups and downs in the capital markets, the likelihood of an extended period of both relatively low short- and long-term interest rates is helpful news for the housing market’s recovery as it continues to struggle.

A new issue of Cityscape features a symposium that examines rental housing policy in the United States from a variety of forward-looking perspectives.

HUD has created a new web-based mapping tool displaying the location all foreclosed properties being held by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

OHFA has posted the Experience and Capacity Review Application on their website.

MaineHousing has released a proposed draft copy of its 2012 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP).

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research has issued two important reports on the nation’s rental housing markets: Rental Market Dynamics: 2007″“2009 and Components of Inventory Change: 2007″“2009.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared three new Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses for the following markets

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) and Rental Market Dynamics reports for 2007-2009.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research is soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 2nd Annual American Housing Survey User Conference, scheduled for the Spring of 2012. Interested scholars and professionals are invited to submit research papers that apply the special features of the AHS datasets to issues of current interest.

New Hampshire Housing has released its annual statewide survey of nearly 31,000 rental units in order to monitor rental costs, provide information to housing data users, and to support New Hampshire Housing’s program administration.

The U.S. Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is conducting a national study of Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) families who transitioned from stepped-up rents and $0 rent to market rate or assisted housing and to track their housing, employment, and financial outcomes over time.

Affordable rental housing is the subject of Department of Housing and Urban Development’s spring 2011 issue of Evidence Matters. The issue centers on the role rental housing policy plays in housing and community development.