What’s New and Big

Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery
by Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, and JungHo Park, January, 2025
This 3-decade national study of housing demography follows the ups and downs of bubble, bust, recovery and boom, showing how federal policy makers imposed severe restrictions based on faulty measurements and without recognizing the large size of incoming millennial cohorts. After a 10 years of delayed life-cycle progress, the pressure cooker burst from pent-up competition by Millennials nationwide. > RSF: Journal of Social Sciences

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 Journal Article
> Public Release Supplement (pdf)   > Twitter Thread

“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)

Rebuilding Common Purpose for the 21st Century with New Civic Infrastructure
by Dowell Myers and Karen Trapenberg Frick, May 6, 2022
> Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy

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)

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
Hint: after 2010, filtering reversed  > Report (pdf)   > NMHC website

Cohort Insights into Recovery of Millennial Homeownership after the Great Recession
by Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, and Patrick Simmons, March 2020, Journal of Housing Economics, Supported by FannieMae  > J of H Econ