Archive for the 'Housing' Category

Housing Prices Heat Map 1975 – 2008 [Stephen Heise]

Published on March 17, 2009 in Choropleth Map, Housing, United States and Video. Closed

Created Stephen Heise based on OFHEO data. Found via Economix.

Red highlights those states with sale prices above their historical price trend
Blue highlights those states with sale prices below their historical price trend

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Housing Starts Jan 1968 – Jan 2009 [Calculated Risk]

Published on March 8, 2009 in Housing, Line Graph, Recessions and United States. Closed

Housing starts over the last 40 years. Take a look at the rest at February Economic Summary in Graphs from Calculated Risk found via Marginal Revolution

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Change in Home Prices: 2001-2008 (NYTimes)

Published on January 4, 2009 in Bar Chart, Housing and United States. Closed Tags: .

From New York Times Economix blog. The change in home prices for the previous 12 months for 20 US cities from 2001-2008. I took the graph for each city and order them by the change in home prices from Oct 2007 – Oct 2008. The blue bars is each city’s data while the gray is the 20-city average.

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[tags]United States, Home Prices[/tags]

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United States “Cost of Home Ownership as % of Income” Map

Published on August 30, 2007 in Choropleth Map, Housing, US Census and United States. 2 Comments

Here I have mapped the cost of owning a home as % of household income (taken from the 2000 Census). This is calculated by dividing the median cost of owning a home by the household income for a given area. If you would like to see a more detailed version go to Social Explorer and choose “Housing” from the second drop down then “Median Owner Costs: % of Income” and select the magnifying glass to zoom in on a specific county.

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% in Poverty Income Map magnafing glass

See also:
United States Household Income Map
United States Income Inequality Map
United States Poverty Map

[tags]income distribution, income map, housing market, housing cost[/tags]

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Housing prices and perception of wealth

Published on March 15, 2006 in Cost of Living, Critiques and Commentary and Housing. 2 Comments

Looking at the effect the increase in housing prices on people’s perception of wealth.

So again, has the housing bubble created a wealth illusion? It does seem that many Americans feel wealthier because of the large increases in home equity in recent years. However, it is difficult to gauge how people feel about their wealth. The most obvious way to demonstrate that we feel wealthier because of increases in home equity is by measuring how much equity many Americans have pulled out of their homes in recent years. As we have seen in this paper, the numbers are enormous. Most people will not use their homes as a piggybank unless they are feeling pretty good about your wealth (or if they are very desperate – it doesn’t appear that many people fall into this category). Based on this, it is safe to say that most of us are feeling wealthier these days because of the soaring prices of our homes.

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