March 31, 2017
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- Jordan Rappaport of the Federal Reserve of Kansas City in a paper titled Crowdedness, Centralized Employment, and Multifamily Home Construction, identifies several characteristics that account for a large share of the variation in multifamily construction across metropolitan areas during 2013-15. It was stronger in larger metros, as measured by population, and less crowded ones, as measured by median population density and the increase in density from the 50th percentile to the 95th percentile across tracts.
- Kelly D. Edmiston of the Federal Reserve of Kansas City in a paper titled, Residential Rent Affordability across US Metropolitan Areas examines recent trends in rent affordability for both low and middle income households and across metropolitan areas.
