Home ownership at lowest point in a decade

Home ownership in the United States hit a 10-year low during the fourth quarter of 2009. According to data released by the Census Bureau last week, the homeownership rate fell to 67.2% at the end of last year. That’s down from 67.6 percent the previous quarter and 67.5 percent one year earlier. It represents the lowest percentage of Americans who owned a home since the second quarter of 2000. Homeownership has been on a steady downward slope since 2006, when it became evident that more and more borrowers were put into loans they couldn’t afford and housing woes began to eat away at the government’s long-time push to make the American Dream a reality for anyone that wanted it.

Regionally, homeownership rates are highest in the Midwest (71.3 percent) and in the South (69.1 percent) where housing is considered relatively affordable. They are lowest in the West (62.3 percent) and the Northeast (63.9 percent) where home prices are on the higher end of the spectrum. Relative to a year ago, the biggest decline, though, was in the South (down 0.7 points) and in the West (down 0.4 points), where you can find the foreclosure hotspots of Florida, California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Census Bureau also reported that the percentage of vacant homes in the U.S. rose from 2.6 percent in the third quarter of last year to 2.7 percent in the fourth. All told, there were 2.09 million homes sitting empty and available for sale at the end of last year, up from 1.99 million three months earlier, the agency said. As Bloomberg explained, this number includes both listed properties and those that banks have repossessed and have not yet listed.

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