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Housing and Development Resources

New Jersey Housing Data

Housing Statistics - Smart-Growth Data Sources
List of Housing Statistics resources, compiled by New Jersey Future
Local Market Updates 
"Monthly metrics by county for the entire state of New Jersey. Links directly to PDF reports." Provided by New Jersey Realtors®.
U.S. Census - New Jersey Quick Facts 
New Jersey specific census data, including Housing Statistics
Who Lives in New Jersey Housing? New Jersey Demographic Multipliers: the Profile of Occupants of Residential and Nonresidential Development
David Listokin et.al. New Brunswick, NJ, Center for Urban Policy Research, November 2006.
Who Lives in New Jersey Housing? : Updated New Jersey Demographic Multipliers
Alexandru Voicu and David Listokin. New Brunswick, Center for Urban Policy Research, November 2018.
New Jersey Building Permit Data
Residential, municipal and county data from 1990 onward.
U.S. Housing Market Conditions--Regional Activity (New York/New Jersey)
Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: 2010
2010 Census Special Report.
Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters
From the 2000 census.
State Energy Data System (SEDS): 1960-2020
Comprehensive state-level estimates of energy production, consumption, prices, and expenditures by source and sector.
New Jersey Home Sales Report: Quarterly Statistics
"Includes information such as sales of existing single-family homes for New Jersey and its regions (northern, central, and southern) by price class and number of bedrooms. The report also contains the median sale price and number of existing single-family homes sold for areas in New Jersey." From the New Jersey Associations of Realtors.
2021 Home Buyers and Sellers Profile
2021 Report on NJRealtors' annual survey of compiled data relating to recent home buyers and sellers in New Jersey 
Construction Reporter 
NJ Department of Community Affairs Construction Reporter provides construction information and data from building permits and certificates of occupancy. 

New York

New York City Rent Guidelines Board Reports
Annual reports from the mid 90's to the present created by the Rent Guidelines Board staff containing data on the operating costs of supplying tenant housing, the affordability of tenant housing and the size of the rental housing supply in New York City.
Housing Plan for a City of Immigrants
New York. Citizens Housing & Planning Council, 2020.
Housing Conditions of Immigrants in New York City
1998 Fannie Mae Foundation Working Paper.
Confronting the Housing Squeeze: Challenges Facing Immigrant Tenants, and What New York Can Do
Pratt Center for Community Development, with the New York Immigrant Housing Collaborative. Fall 2008.
Immigrant Clusters and Home Ownership in Global Metropolises: Suburbanization Trends in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York
Ayse Pamuk. University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development Working Paper 2004-02.