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AHS: New Research Reports Released

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Three new reports related to the American Housing Survey have been posted to the web site at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html#analyses:

  • New AHS PUF Information on HUD-Assisted Rental Housing
    Examines the features of the 2011 AHS related to assisted rental housing: (1) AHS sample units matched to HUD administrative information where the unit or the household receives assistance and (2) a supplemental sample of public housing units and units in privately owned subsidized projects.

  • Between-Survey Changes in the Number of Bedrooms in a Unit: How Often? Why? Effect on Measures of Rental Affordability?
    This paper examines the extent to which bedroom counts for units in the American Housing Survey (AHS) change between surveys and how this variation affects the analysis of rental affordability. For the 43,000 units in both the 2009 and 2011 AHS surveys, 18 percent had a different number of bedrooms, as reported by respondents, in the two surveys. This level of survey-to-survey change is consistent with that found in previous research.

  • Analysis of Trends in Household Composition Using American Housing Survey Data
    This report uses data from the American Housing Survey (AHS) to analyze changes in household composition from the 2003 survey through the 2009 survey (hereafter, from 2003 to 2009), particularly those changes that reflect an increase in doubled-up households. The term “other household member” is applied to people who are not the householder nor the householder’s spouse, partner, or minor children. Other household members include adult children, parents, grandchildren, siblings, and nonrelatives. Households containing other household members are labeled “doubled-up households.” Census Bureau studies suggesting a link between the recession and the increase in doubled-up households motivated this research. The data reported here provide several indications that the recession and the preceding financial crisis had an effect on doubled-up households.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
451 7th Street SW, Room 8222
Washington, DC 20410

Email david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
Phone 202-402-5890