Market Analysis

NH&RA’s National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts is expected to hold educational training in the near future for staff members of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. The training will cover various aspects of market studies for LIHTC projects.

The National Housing & Rehabilitation recently submitted two sets of comments to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) relating to FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has published two new Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis Reports for the Houston, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi market areas.

A renter household needs an annual income of $38,360 in order to afford a two-bedroom rental unit at the Fair Market Rent, according to a recent study released by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition.

National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts (NCAHMA) is please to offer FIVE digital audio recordings of select panel sessions held during its 2010 Spring Underwriting Forum, April 7-8 in New Orleans.

HUD USER recently updated the State of the Cities Data System to include labor statistics for February 2010, using Local Area Unemployment Statistics data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Urban Land Institute has published a new report entitled Housing in America: The Next Decade. The first part of this report reviews the current state of the market.

The research symposium in PD&R’s newest issue of Cityscape A Journal of Policy Development and Research: (Volume 12, Number 1) examines the effects of the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) public housing revitalization program.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a new report showing that the Build America Bonds program has resulted in significant savings in borrowing costs for state and local governments.

A recent article by the Brookings Institution entitled A Demographic Lull for U.S. Migration at Census Time explores the slowdown in interstate migration in United States The areas that have been hit hardest are the Sun Belt cities that saw significant mid-decade population growth.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research has released a comprehensive housing market analysis report for the Oklahoma City market region.

The National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts convened its 2010 Spring Underwriting Forum on April 7-8 at the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans. NCAHMA is pleased to announce that the PowerPoint presentations from the event are now available…