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June 2025

THE STATE OF THE NATION’S HOUSING 2025
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University recently released its 2025 update to “The State of the Nation’s Housing”.
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Green Shoots
Little victories are starting to show up here and there.
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May 2025 Residential Home Sales
Boring recovery continues.
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Back of the envelope estimate of mortgage crackdown
Here’s another quick and dirty estimate of the decline in mortgage access.
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Follow Up to Legislating Mass Evictions
In a recent post, I noted that there is a bill sponsored by Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and several other Democrats which makes one single demand …
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May 2025 Residential Construction
I’m not sure that a single word from last month would have to change to report on this month’s data.
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May 2025 Erdmann Housing Tracker & Inflation Update
Inflation continues along the 2% path it has been on for 3 years, except for the mechanical lag in the shelter component.
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Are we going to legislate mass evictions?
The “Humans over Private Equity for Homeownership Act” is a bill sponsored by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and co-sponsored by Angus King (I-Maine…
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High Debt-to-Income Ratios
One facet of mortgage data that you normally see cited by credit hawks is that debt-to-income (DTI) ratios are high on new mortgages.
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