Homeownership
Access to owning a home. Mortgage and credit conditions, starter-home supply, the role of investor purchases in for-sale markets, and the path from renting to ownership.
Corporate purchases remain nationally small
Institutional buyers are a small share of national home purchases, though concentrated in some Sun Belt metros. The measurement question is which threshold counts as institutional in the first place.
There's a Massive Housing Shortage Across the U.S. Here's How Bad It Is Where You Live
NPR examined the scale of the national housing shortage, drawing on Up for Growth's analysis to show a deficit of millions of homes and the pressure it creates for prices, affordability, and access.
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