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Homeownership Rate Rebounds from 50-Year Low

Friday, July 28, 2017   /   by Carlos J Higareda

Homeownership Rate Rebounds from 50-Year Low




The U.S. homeownership rate may have finally bottomed out, as the share of Americans who own homes is steadily climbing. The ownership rate posted an increase in the second quarter, reversing a sharp downward trend that begun in the Great Recession.


The homeownership rate was 63.7 percent in the second quarter, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. That marks nearly a full percentage point increase from a year ago.


Last year, the homeownership rate had plunged to a 50-year low of 62.9 percent. 


“The addition of 1.2 million households being homeowners is clearly good news, as more households are participating in housing equity gains,” says Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of REALTORS®. “But let’s keep it in perspective: There are fewer homeowners today compared to a decade ago, while renter households have risen by 8 million. So it is still the case that the massive $7 trillion in housing wealth gains from the cyclical low point has been accumulated by a fewer number of families in America. Further advances in homeownership are required to strengthen and broaden the middle class.”


Source: “Homeownership Rate Jumps From 50-Year Low,” The Wall Street Journal (July 27, 2017) and National Association of REALTORS®



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