Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through its Economic and Market Analysis Division, prepares Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses that assist and guide HUD in its operations. The resulting information, findings, and conclusions contained in the reports is also useful to builders, mortgagees, and others concerned with local housing conditions and trends. For each analysis, HUD economists develop a factual framework based on information available, as of a particular date, from both local and national sources. Each analysis takes into consideration changes in the economic, demographic, and housing inventory characteristics of a specific housing market area during three periods: from 1990 to 2000, from 2000 to the as-of date of the analysis, and from the as-of date to a forecast date. The reports present counts and estimates of employment, population, households, and housing inventory. New reports have been issued in 2009 for Chattanooga, Tennessee-Georgia; Des Moines, Iowa; Spartanburg, South Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Florida; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ventura County, California; Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana; Abilene, Texas; and Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas. For additional data pertaining to the housing market for these housing markets and those from previous years, go to http://www.huduser.org/publications/econdev/mkt_analysis.htm |