Market Analysis

The National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts recently submitted comments on the proposed 2010 qualified allocation plans (QAP) of several states for administering their upcoming rounds of low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program funding, including the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, the Washing State Housing Finance Commission and the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Policy Development and Research arm, HUD USER, has released Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses for the Dallas, Texas and Las Vegas-Paradise, Nevada market areas.

We are pleased to announce NH&RA has launched a Twitter Feed. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read short messages known as tweets. We’ll be using Twitter to let our members know about the projects we are working on, provide updates on industry news and developments, live report from NH&RA and other industry meetings and much more…

The U.S. Census Bureau today (Sept. 22) released its latest American Community Survey (ACS) data, which compiles social, housing, demographic and economic information for approximately 3 million households each year.

We are pleased to announce that we will be returning to Chicago for this years Affordable Housing Underwriting Forum & NCAHMA Annual Meeting. We will be convening November 9-10 at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile. If you are a market analyst, appraiser, debt or equity underwriter or developer, join your colleagues to discuss critical underwriting and market study developments in affordable housing.

The Brookings Institute recently published its second edition of MetroMonitor, a quarterly series of reports that examines the impact of the economic recession and recovery efforts in the nation’s 100 most populated metropolitan areas.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the latest version of its publication, U.S. Housing Market Conditions, for the second quarter of 2009.

The Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism recently published its 2008 edition of the State of Hawaii Data Book.

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a report analyzing the country’s housing unit estimates at the national, state and county levels.

The National Multi Housing Coalition (NMHC) has released the results of its Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently requested Econometrica, Inc., to assess the analytical usefulness of the American Housing Survey’s (AHS) content.

The Metropolitan Area Quarterly Residential and Business
Vacancy Report for the quarter ending March 31, 2009 is
a recent addition to HUD USER’s library of online data
sets.