Housing in the Nation's Capital 2005

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This is the fourth in a series of annual reports about housing in the Washington metropolitan region. It assembles and analyzes the most current data on housing conditions and trends in the District of Columbia and the surrounding suburbs. Last year's report took a regional perspective, exploring housing policy challenges posed by the Washington area's remarkable economic growth and unbalanced patterns of development.

This year's report focuses on Washington, D.C., examining how the region's sustained prosperity is transforming the District's housing market. More specifically, the report assesses how the city's neighborhoods are changing and explores the consequences for housing opportunity and housing policy across the city. To address these issues:

• Chapter 1 reviews the latest evidence on the strength of our regional economy and looks closely at the challenges that revitalization poses for the District of Columbia.
• Chapter 2 focuses on important variations in housing pressures across the District and presents a new neighborhood typology designed to promote a more nuanced understanding of the differing challenges facing the city's neighborhoods.
• Chapters 3 and 4 document recent developments in the homeowner and rental markets, respectively, with a focus on the loss of housing affordable for the District's lower- and moderate-income families and the risk of reconcentrating poverty in a few distressed neighborhoods.
• Chapter 5 looks to the future, outlining key policy challenges for the District of Columbia and highlighting the need for strategies that are attuned to neighborhood differences rather than dependent on a one-size-fits-all approach to affordability challenges.

Appendix Tables

Appendix Table Guide
Appendix A: Population Characteristics
Appendix B: Employment, Income, and Wages
Appendix C: Housing Stock and Vacancy
Appendix D: Rental Costs and Subsidized Housing
Appendix E: Home Sales/Financing
Appendix F: Vulnerable Populations
Appendix G: Housing Affordability
Appendix H: Technical

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