San Jose and San Francisco, among the nation’s most expensive housing markets, have two of the smallest gaps between the homeownership rates of low-income families and the overall population. Tampa, Florida has the smallest gap in…
And three southern metros—Louisville, Charlotte and Nashville—experienced the largest rise in low-income homeownership from 2012 to 2017. Minneapolis has the nation’s highest homeownership rate for low-income families. In the Minneapolis area, 57.7 percent of households with…
Although the number of homes for sale is increasing rapidly in some markets, the number of affordable homes for sale is falling. We have written a lot recently about rapid growth in the supply of homes…