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This is the long-awaited update of the authors' classic America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. The first version has long been the most authoritative effort in the field. Now this brief, efficient, one-volume work contains all the most up-to-date data available to chart housing progress and need. Forecasts on future demo­graphics, production trends, and changes in markets are clearly presented for the use of students and practitioners. More than 100 tables help summarize the current reality in a convenient, simple format. The major chapter topics indicate the comprehensiveness of the coverage:The Demographic Framework;Housing Demand: The Population Baseli≠The HouseholdRevolution;The Maturing Society and Market Seg­mentation;Future Households: Scale and Shape;Income: Accelerator and Brake;Housing Supply: The Potent Baseli≠Housing Production Cycles;Regional Shifts Revisited;Housing Cost Structures;New Mortgage Realities;Components of Inventory Chan≥Scale, Condition, and Amenity;Demand-Supply Interrelationships;Housing to Come