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Finally, the homeownership rate is lower in the Obama states (60%) than in the Romney states (67%).
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After pumping trillions into the mortgage market since 1998 through the GSEs, the homeownership rate is back to 1998 levels.
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If you look at the aggregate data for the United States, in particular from 2004 to 2005, homeownership rate actually dropped.
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So if prices rebound, the homeownership rate, which peaked at 69% in the third quarter of 2006, will likely keep falling.
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Lastly, UBS says it expects that government policy will focus more on mass refinancing as an economic stimulus, rather than increasing the homeownership rate.
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An increase in the homeownership rate from 67.9 (third quarter, 2008) to 68.6 (the average rate from 2003-2004) would increase homeownership by about 800, 000 new homeowners.
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Nationwide, the homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent or 76 million occupied housing units that were owned by their residents from 66.2 percent in 2000.
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Homeownership rate is at an all-time high in America.
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By 2005, the homeownership rate was approaching 70%.
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The resulting increase in the supply of mortgage credit likely contributed to the rise in the homeownership rate from 64 percent in 1994 to about 68 percent now with minority households and households from lower-income census tracts recording some of the largest gains in percentage terms.
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At the peak of the bubble, the rate of homeownership approached 70 percent.
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The U.S. continues to maintain a relatively high rate of homeownership, surpassed only by countries such as Spain, Ireland, Australia and England.
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