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Housing
Median home values, gross rent, vacancy, ownership and price-to-rent across America.
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Articles in Housing sit at the intersection of public data and lived experience. Every piece starts from a specific Census table, traces the number back to the household-level question that produced it, and then asks the harder question: what does this actually mean for the people, places, and markets it describes?
We avoid the two failure modes of most data writing: throwing a chart on a page and assuming it speaks for itself, or over-interpreting a single year of estimates as a trend. Where a finding warrants caveats — margin of error, geographic crosswalks, ACS1 vs ACS5 trade-offs — those caveats are in the body, not buried in a footnote.
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Median Home Value vs. Median Rent: Why the Gap Tells You More Than Either Number
The price-to-rent ratio derived from Census tables B25077 and B25064 is one of the cleanest signals of where housing markets are stretched. Here's how to read it.
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