The State Of The Nation's Housing, 2003

Since 1997, home price gains have exceeded income gains in 48 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas.

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June 30, 2003, 1:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"The State of the Nation's Housing, 2003" is released by the Joint Centerfor Housing Studies of Harvard University. This report uses statistics and trends to describe the current state of housing in the US. It includes income and housing costs, median netwealth of owner and renter households, lowest-income households by cost burdens, tenure choices of recent movers, median net wealth andhomeownership rates by age and race/ethnicity, home prices by region and metropolitan area, and more. [Editor's note: The link below is to a PDF document.]

Thanks to Paul Tepper, Weingart Center

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