Urban Economics
The Wealth and Poverty of Cities
Reconstructing Urban Economics
The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Analyzes federal budget priorities with a focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans.
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard and MIT Universities. Provides The State of our Nation’s Housing annual analysis on key housing trends in America, as well as statistics, research , and reports on housing issues.
National Housing Conference. Nonprofit dedicated to helping ensure safe, decent and affordable housing for all in America, specializing in solutions through research to broaden understanding of America’s affordable housing challenges.
NBER Working Group on Urban Economics. Scholars working on the economics of cities. Causes and consequences of metropolitan density and other areass of economics that touch on urban life.
Urban Economics Association. Association whose members are economic researchers with a focus on urban topics.
Urban Land Institute. Independent global think tank representing the spectrum of real estate development and land use disciplines.
These journals are specific to Housing Economics, but researchers in the field also publish in many other economics journals.
American Community Survey. (IPUMS-USA). Ongoing survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau with socioeconomic variables at the metropolitan level.
data.census.gov. Population, housing, economic and geographic data from the from the U.S. Census with the aggregate data from a variety of Census Bureau Surveys.
Bank for International Settlement Property Price Statistics. Useful for comparisons across countries.
Case Shiller US National Home Index. Provides monthly pricing/resale values back to 1987 for the United States and metropolitan areas.
CEIC. Includes real estate data for many countries, sometimes sub-nationally. OK to click "guest access," registration offers additional features.
Center for Microeconomic Data. From the New York Federal Reserve. Includes data on buying and selling, delinquencies, household debt, renting and owning, mortgage financing and more.
China Statistical Yearbooks. Regional price indices for housing. Additional data can be found in the China real estate statistical yearbook.
Current Population Survey. (Via IPUMS). Labor force statistics for the population of the United States and source of numerous economic statistics, including unemployment rates at various levels.
Data and Rent Estimates. Rent estimates taken from the American Community Survey.
Eurostat. Includes European Housing Price Indices.
Fair Market Rents. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually estimates fair rents for 530 metropolitan areas and 2,045 non-metropolitan county areas.
Finaeon. Includes international real estate data: home price indexes, housing starts, prices, listings, sales, etc. Indexes are at times at very small levels of geography (cities) as well as states, countries and regions.
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. US Government HMDA data with detailed statistics on mortgage lending finance. See also Sage Data and ICPSR.
HUD provides data sets on a variety of topics, most notably affordable housing. See their most accessed data sets.
Passport. Time series data on Labor, Transport, Prices, Income, Expenditures, Climate, Pollution, and more for selected cities worldwide.
Sage Data. Easy access to US and international economic, social, and political indicators.
Social Explorer. Current and historical United States aggregate census data, including all historic censuses and American Community Surveys. Census data is current and historical back to 1790.