The annual State of the Nation’s Housing report aims to encapsulate a year’s worth of trends and issues in housing policy, market trends, household growth and composition, homeownership, affordability issues, rental markets, and more, according to Daniel McCue, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
McCue said the breadth of issues covered in the report—its release coincided with a panel discussion webinar— "always makes it difficult to come up with a single headline to fully describe the contents of the report," so he observed five major findings from this year’s report "that could easily have been headlines themselves."