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Homes and Communities (HUD)
 
This is the home page for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Topics include information on owning a home, help on renting, the homeless, filing complaints, and notices and forms; audience groups include seniors, the disabled, veterans, farmworkers, and real estate brokers; "HUD Highlights" is an ever-changing list of items of current interest. Searchable.
http://www.hud.gov/
Topics: Communities & Groups, Housing, Poverty, Social Issues
Last updated May 25, 2005
Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS)
The JCHS "is Harvard University's center for information and research on housing in the United States. The Joint Center analyzes the dynamic relationships between housing markets and economic, demographic, and social trends." The site features publications on topics such as the state of the nation's housing (with information and data about house production, ownership, and prices), home remodeling, rentals, and more. Also includes an overview of research topics and articles written by JCHS members. Searchable.
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu
Topics: Housing, Investing
Last updated May 25, 2005
Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America
This website "presents wage information for more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents for nearly 200 metropolitan areas." Metropolitan area charts compare the annual income needed to afford median-priced homes and rental units against the annual incomes of selected generally lower-waged professions. Or, select a profession to view comparisons of income needed for housing in different metropolitan areas. From the nonprofit Center for Housing Policy.
http://www.nhc.org/chp/p2p/
Topics: Finance, Housing, Jobs & Work
Last updated Jun 18, 2006
U.S. Census Bureau Housing Topics
See data on the nation's housing, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, and vacant housing units. Data are shown for household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers. Historical Tables shows trends since the first housing census in 1940. There are also data on home ownership, affordability, market absorption of apartments, and New York City specifically.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing.html
Topics: Housing, Statistics
Last updated Oct 27, 2006
World Habitat Day 2007
"The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter for all," and on the human habitat. This site describes events around the world, and material about previous celebrations and winners of the Scroll of Honor ("the most prestigious human settlements award") back to 2001. From the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=534
Topics: Housing
Last updated Oct 3, 2007
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