Housing Equality & Policy
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November 23, 2020
Home-value growth has accelerated in suburbs and flatlined in cities, and suburban housewives have become more rare. The American suburbs have become more racially and ethnically diverse and more Democratic over the last decade. To understand the changing demographics of the suburbs, we analyzed data from the U.S. Census, along with Redfin’s housing market data […]
November 12, 2020
Fifty-three percent of homeowners are financially better off than they were four years ago, versus 44% of renters. Thirty-two percent of Americans have lost their job or lost wages—or someone in their household has—due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey of more than 3,000 U.S. residents that was fielded in October. Broken down […]
October 30, 2020
A smaller share—23%—say that recent natural disasters have made them like where they live even more. More than a quarter (27%) of Americans said that recent natural disasters such as fires, floods and storms have made them want to move away from where they currently live, or have changed where they want to move to, […]
October 27, 2020
The share of people who are hesitant to relocate to an area where they’d be in the racial, ethnic or religious minority also increased—to 28% from 20%—according to a Redfin survey. Forty-two percent of U.S. residents would be hesitant to move to an area where most people have political views different from their own, up […]
October 22, 2020
Thirty-eight percent of homebuyers and sellers don’t want to see low-income housing in their neighborhood, according to an August Redfin survey of more than 1,400 U.S. residents who plan to buy or sell a home in the next 12 months. That’s roughly the same share as in November 2019, when 39% of respondents said the […]
