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The Ownership Society Fails: Homeownership at 10 Year Low

04-27-2010 • CalculatedRiskBlog.com

The homeownership rate increased in the '90s and early '00s because of changes in demographics and "innovations" in mortgage lending. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.6% in Q1 2010. A normal rate for recent years appears to be about 1.7%. This leaves the homeowner vacancy rate about 0.9% above normal. This data is not perfect, but based on the approximately 75 million homeowner occupied homes, we can estimate that there are close to 675 thousand excess vacant homes.

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Reported By Jack Gregson

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