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Has Housing Filtering Stalled? Heterogeneous Outcomes in the American Housing Survey, 1985–2021
By Spader, J.
Full Citation
Spader, J. (2024). Has housing filtering stalled? Heterogeneous outcomes in the American Housing Survey, 1985–2021. Housing Policy Debate, 1-23.
Key Findings
This paper uses the American Housing Survey (AHS) panels for 1985–2013 and 2015–2021 to construct repeat income measures of filtering (the process through which housing units over time serve occupants with lower or higher incomes). Temporal analyses document significant changes in the estimated filtering outcomes across multiple time periods. In particular, the estimates for 2015–2021 suggest that downward filtering of housing units stalled or reversed as housing markets tightened in recent years