Housing

When the Best Available Home is the One You Already Have
by Emily Badger, The New York Times, May 27, 2022
Derived in part from the article on Housing Shortages and the declining mobility rate as vacancies become constricted
> New York Times   > Journal Article Abstract   > Twitter

“Who Get’s to Call California Home?” a Multi-chapter report for the Center for California Real Estate, a division of the California Association of Realtors
by Dowell Myers (Principal Investigator), authors: Hyojung Lee, Ph.D. Seongmoon Cho, and David Flores-Moctezuma, April 2022
View and download entire report, including all references > Full Report (pdf)

Executive Summary (CCRE Report)
by Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, Seongmoon Cho, and David Flores Moctezuma, April 2022
> Executive Summary (pdf)

Summary of Key Findings
by Elizabeth Ackerman, the California Association of Realtors, Spring 2022
> Summary (html)

Module 1. Soaring Housing Demand Despite Lagging Population Growth in California
by Dowell Myers, April 2022 > Module1 (pdf)

Module 2. Growing Generation Gaps in Homeownership and Racial Disparities
by Dowell Myers and David Flores Moctezuma, April 2022
> Module2 (pdf)

Module 3. Negative Effects of Housing Shortages on Housing Well-Being of Local Residents
by Dowell Myers and Seongmoon Cho, April 2022
 > Module3 (pdf)

Module 4. Housing Filtering, Prices, and Neighborhood Change in Communities of Color
by Hyojung Lee and Dowell Myers, April 2022
includes first use of 2020 census to show racial change patterns in a dramatic new spatial visualization > Module4 (pdf)

Hispanic Homeownership Advancement through Recession and Boom
Explains how to use the 5-year ACS files to trace growth of homeownership by cohorts during the Great Recession, then turning upward in the recovery years after 2014. Compares US, LA county, and a gentrifying district
by Dowell Myers and David Flores-Moctezuma, November 3, 2021 > Cityscape (pdf)

Housing Shortages and the New Downturn of Residential Mobility in the U.S.
by Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Seongmoon Cho, June 2021
> Housing Studies   > Public Release Supplement (pdf)   > Twitter Thread

End of Housing and Economic Recovery from the Great Recession: How Good Did It Get by 2019?
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, October 2020 > Report (pdf)

Filtering of Apartment Housing between 1980 and 2018
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, April 2020, Supported by National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) Research Foundation   > Report (pdf)   > NMHC website

California Building Trends: Too Many Apartments?
by Dowell Myers, February 2020
> PowerPoint (pdf)

Can Indirect Strategies Reduce Shortages, Restrain Housing Cannibals, and Promote Affordability?
by Dowell Myers, October 2019, Annual Distinguished Speaker Lecture held by the San Francisco State University PACE Applied Housing Research Initiative   > PowerPoint (pdf)   > Lecture Video (1:07)   > SFSU website for the lecture details

Housing Interconnections in Los Angeles: Shortages, Affordability, and Displacement
by Dowell Myers, October 2019
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > Research Project Final Report (pdf)

How Do Shortages Lead to Dislodgement and Disappearing Renters? (Housing Research Brief 6)
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, August 2019
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > HRB 6 (pdf)

Growing Housing Needs Amid the Shortage Crisis in California Regions
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, June 2019, 30th Annual USC-SCAG Demographic Workshop > PowerPoint (pdf)   > SCAG website for the workshop details

Changing Rental Affordability in California Regions: Application of the Constant Quartile Mismatch Indicator
by JungHo Park and Dowell Myers, June 2019, 30th Annual USC-SCAG Demographic Workshop > PowerPoint (pdf)   > SCAG website for workshop details

A Constant Quartile Mismatch Indicator of Changing Rental Affordability in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2000 to 2016
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, March 2019, Cityscape > Cityscape   > All 50 Metros Rankings

Cohort Insights into Recovery of Millennial Homeownership after the Great Recession
by Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, and Patrick Simmons, January 2019, Journal of Housing Economics > J of H Econ

Simulating the Change in Young Adult Homeownership Through 2035: Effects of Growing Diversity and Rising Educational Attainment
by Dowell Myers, Gary Painter, Julie Zissimopoulos, Hyojung Lee, and Johanna Thunell, January 2019, Housing Policy Debate > HPD

Where Do Low-Income Angelenos Live? (Housing Research Brief 5)
by JungHo Park and Dowell Myers, January 2019
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > HRB 5 (pdf)

Who Lives in New Housing in Los Angeles? (Housing Research Brief 4)
by Dowell Myers and JungHo Park, January 2019
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > HRB 4 (pdf)

What Makes Rent “Affordable”? America’s Standard Metric Compares Rents to Incomes. That Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story.
by Henry Grabar in Slate magazine, October 1, 2018, interpreting the report on worsening housing affordability by Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Eduardo Mendoza > Slate

Homeownership Rate Rises for First Time in Years, Led by Millennials Across the States
by Dowell Myers, September 14, 2018
> Research Note (pdf)

How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in Los Angeles? (Housing Research Brief 2)
by Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Eduardo Mendoza, August 2018
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > HRB 2 (pdf)

How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in California? (Housing Research Brief 1)
by Dowell Myers, JungHo Park, and Janet Li, August 2018
sponsored by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation > HRB 1 (pdf)

The Coming Exodus of Older Homeowners
by Dowell Myers and Patrick Simmons, July 11, 2018
> Fannie Mae Housing Insights

Resolving the Millennial Homeownership Rate Paradox
by Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, and Patrick Simmons, May 9, 2018
> Fannie Mae Perspective

Cohort Momentum and Future Homeownership: The Outlook to 2050
by Dowell Myers and Hyojung Lee, March 2016
> Future Homeownership (pdf)

Immigrant Contributions to Housing Demand
by Dowell Myers and John Pitkin, March 2013
sponsored by the Research Institute for Housing America > Report (pdf)

Housing Market Links Older Whites, Young Latinos
by Dowell Myers, July 31, 2011
> Sacramento Bee op-ed (pdf)

The Demographics of Proposition 13: Large Disparities Between the Generations and the Unsustainable Effects of House Prices
by Dowell Myers, September 2009 > Report (pdf)

Avoiding Failure to Launch: A Grown Children Benchmark for Projecting Future Housing Needs
by Dowell Myers and Sung Ho Ryu, April 2006
Fannie Mae Foundation Special Report, Washington, D.C.

California Homeowners Growing Stake in Infrastructure and the Future
by Dowell Myers, John Pitkin, and Julie Park, April 2006
> Keston Institute for Infrastructure Research Paper (pdf)

The Great Housing Collapse in California
by Dowell Myers and Julie Park, May 2002
Fannie Mae Foundation Special Report, Washington, D.C.

Advances in Homeownership Across the States and Generations: Continued Gains for the Elderly and Stagnation Among the Young
by Dowell Myers, 2001
Fannie Mae Foundation Census Note 08