Market Analysis

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research has made available an interactive, historical timeline of key events, programs and legislation that has helped shape the nation’s housing policy since the 1930s.

Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Commissioner David Stevens recently announced plans to implement a series of changes to the multifamily insurance programs that will update underwriting policies, increase lender and underwriter quality, and align loan application, submission and approval standards.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS), a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of U.S. housing units and their occupants.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the public use dataset from the 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS) national sample.

The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its 2010 State of Nation’s Housing Report.

HUD has published its twelfth in the series of worst case housing needs reports.

Louisiana Housing Finance Agency has issued an RFP for a financial analysis consultant for the Agency’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program and related programs.

HUD’s Office of Policy Research & Development has released a new information system containing labor force data for cities from a database of Local Area Unemployment Statistics data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency (LHFA) has released a notice of ten frequently asked questions relating to LHFA’s 2010 RFP for market analysts.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research has released a report, “Preview of Data for U.S. Housing Market Conditions 1st Quarter 2010.” Published quarterly, the report provides statistical data and written reports on housing market conditions in the U.S.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency recently announced that it is seeking proposals from applicants to be placed into a pool of Market Analysts to provide individual market studies for projects to qualify for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) in the State of Louisiana.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has published a Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis report for the Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska-Iowa region.