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 demo-graphics, 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 Baseline; The Household Revolution; The Maturing Society and Market Seg-mentation; Future Households: Scale and Shape; Income: Accelerator and Brake; Housing Supply: The Potent Baseline; Housing Production Cycles; Regional Shifts Revisited; Housing Cost Structures; New Mortgage Realities; Components of Inventory Change; Scale, Condition, and Amenity; Demand-Supply Interrelationships; Housing to Come