Housing

• Major Sites

Major Sites

• Department of Housing and Urban Development
  Administers the nation's programs of assistance for housing and community development.
• HUD User
  Subtitled: Policy Development and Research Information Service.  Offers downloads of more than 1,000 housing publications and data sets.
• American Housing Survey
  Home page for the Census Bureau survey program which covers characteristics of all types of residential housing across the nation and in 46 selected metro areas.
• American Housing Survey for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News Metropolitan Area 1998
  300+ pages of data on the characteristics of the housing stock including size, financing, fuel, and neighborhood quality for the local metro area.  First complete Census housing report on Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News metro area since 1992. For a complete list of links to metro areas covered by the Census Bureau since 1994, see American Housing Survey, Selected Metropolitan Areas.
• Buying a Home
  Resources, publications, and tips on the steps to follow in buying a home. From the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Census of Housing: Housing: Then and Now, 50 Years of Decennial Censuses
  A collection of data on housing characteristics drawn from the Censuses of Housing since 1940.
• Community Reinvestment Act: CRA Statute and Tools
  Information on the law which requires federally insured banks and thrifts to meet credit needs of low and moderate income people in their community, especially with regard to mortgages.  Includes searchable data base of CRA Performance Ratings for banks/thrifts.  From the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
• Current Housing Reports: American Housing Survey 1985-2001, Annual Housing Survey 1973-1983
  A retrospective file of nearly 30 years of reports on characteristics of American housing with mostly national level data. From the Census Bureau.
• Homeless Management Information Strategies
  Focal point of federal government efforts to gather information and data about the homeless in America. Includes links to state level information. From the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Homelessness
  A list of resources and publications on the homeless from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Homelessness: Recent Statistics, Targeted Federal Programs, and Recent Legislation
  Discusses definitions of the homeless, sources of data, and federal programs to serve the homeless. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.
• Housing Data Between the Censuses: The American Housing Survey
  Describes how the Survey is conducted, what information is collected, and what other related federal sources exist for users of housing information. From the Census Bureau.
• Housing Vacancies and Homeownership
  Includes data on Quarterly and annual data on homeownership by regions, the nation, ethnicity, and family income
• HUD User Database
  Abstracts of more than 10,000 books, articles, research reports, and data sources on housing policy, community development, urban planninig and related issues. From the Housing and Urban Development Department.
• New Residential Construction
  Data on Housing Starts, Housing Completions, and Building Permits Issued. From the Census Bureau.
• New Residential Sales
  Data on sales of new one-family homes. Also includes data on number of houses sold by cost of house by quarter, year, and region of the country. From the Census Bureau.
• Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters
  Data on the homeless counted during the 2000 Census. From the Census Bureau.
• Poverty and Homelessness
  A collection of reports and data about the homeless from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Includes "Homelessness: Progams and the People They Serve," a comprehensive study of the homeless issued by HUD in December 1999.
• State of the Cities
  Annual report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development which discusses the opportunities and problems facing American cities.
• State of the Cities Data Systems
  Provides data on a variety of topics for cities, metro areas, and suburbs. From the Housing and Urban Development Department's HUD USER site.
• Survey of Real Estate Trends
  Quarterly survey of the real estate market by region  from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Unequal Burden: Income and Racial Disparities in Subprime Lending in America.
  Study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of home loans in black and low income urban neighborhoods which revealed pattern of subprime rates and discriminatory lending.  Study covered the period 1993-1998.