Here is a chart going back to 1995.
Posted on 06/22/2015 9:54:51 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
National vacancy rates in the first quarter 2015 were 7.1 percent for rental housing and 1.9 percent for homeowner housing, the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau announced today. The rental vacancy rate of 7.1 percent was 1.2 percentage points (+/-0.4) lower than the rate in the first quarter 2014 and 0.1 percentage point (+/-0.3)* higher than the rate last quarter. The homeowner vacancy rate of 1.9 percent was 0.1percentage point(+/-0.2)* lower than the rate in the first quarter 2014and approximately the same as the rate last quarter (+/-0.1)*.
The homeownership rate of 63.7 percent was 1.1percentage points (+/-0.4) lower than the first quarter 2014 rate (64.8 percent) and 0.3 percentage points (+/-0.4)* lower than the rate last quarter (64.0percent).
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Here is a chart going back to 1995.
It just gets better and better every day doesn’t it.
The census report, bla, bla, bla, bla...more lies and crap trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Obama’s war on small business, is paying off.
Plus the education at any cost movement.
I live in a small town. Just driving through, you can see the uptick in homes for sale. It’s pretty telling that many have been on the market since spring. Kids are living with their parents for extended times being unable to afford rent. Some kids are probably living in groups, I would assume. As much as a person can gush over the made up numbers of economic bliss, they cannot deny the reality of math and science. Sometimes the libs are just Math- Deniers. I guess we could call them Economy deniers.
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