Housing in the Nation's Capital 2003

This report is the second in a series of annual reports on housing in the District of Columbia and the surrounding region. It assembles and analyzes the most current data on housing supply and demand in the Washington metropolitan area, building on the 2002 report and presenting new information from the 2000 Census as well as more current data on emerging trends. The purpose of this series is to help inform the public, policymakers, industry representatives, community-based organizations, and advocates concerned about housing conditions and trends.

This year's report consists of an executive summary and six core chapters: 1) "Introduction," 2) "Economic and Demographic Context," 3) "Housing Stock and Production," 4) "Homeownership Market," 5) "Rental Housing Market," and 6) "Low-Income Housing Needs and Resources." The sixth chapter, new to this year's report, analyzes housing challenges facing the region's neediest residents. Each of these chapters will be updated annually as new data become available. The final chapter will focus on a different topic each year, taking advantage of newly released data or responding to emerging issues of particular concern. This year's chapter explores the changing patterns of concentrated poverty in the District of Columbia.

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