Doms, Mark and Meryl Motika. 2006. "The Rise of Homeownership." Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco Economic Letter (3 November).
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2006/el2006-30.html
"After decades of relative stability, the rate of U.S. homeownership began to surge
in the mid-1990s, rising from 64% in 1994 to a peak of 69% in 2004, near which it
has hovered ever since . . . [S]ome of the explanation likely stems from innovations
in the mortgage market that resulted in greater access to credit, lower down payment
requirements, and easy and low-cost access to the equity in a house, which makes
homeownership more attractive."
Thanks to an old Timothy Taylor column in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
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