Housing
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The Quarterly Catch-up, Q3 2025
Check out the latest community development-related research, analyses, and articles from all 12 Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. This post captures content published between July 1 and September 30, 2025, on topics affecting communities.
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Could greater secondary market access help CDFIs meet growing demand?
Demand is up among underserved borrowers for community development financial institutions’ loans. Some industry experts are exploring whether these mission-driven lenders might leverage broader secondary market opportunities to increase available lending capital.
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Minneapolis Housing Indicators Dashboard
The Minneapolis Fed’s Housing Indicators Dashboard monitors ten housing-related outcomes from the City of Minneapolis’ Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan and associated policy changes, as well as relevant information that provides context on how these outcomes vary across Minneapolis neighborhoods and compare to peer cities.
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Regional Economic Growth and Mobility Dashboard
The dashboard organizes the metrics from the Third Federal Reserve District into issue areas that include overall prosperity, quality job creation, education and workforce development, and infrastructure and affordable housing. These issue areas align with the goals of the Philadelphia Fed’s Economic Growth & Mobility Project.
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A Map of Racially Restrictive Covenants in the City of Philadelphia
Housing is important to the U.S. economy and to individual financial well-being. Where someone lives affects their job, education, and other opportunities in life. As part of our efforts to identify issues and inform solutions related to the housing market and access to housing, the Philadelphia Fed is examining historical barriers to housing and their…
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Home Mortgage Explorer
The Home Mortgage Explorer provides lending estimates produced from publicly available Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data.
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Peer City Identification Tool
The Peer City Identification Tool (PCIT), developed by the Community Development and Policy Studies (CDPS) division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is a data comparison and visualization instrument that can help policymakers and practitioners understand a municipality in the context of peer cities.
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Regional Housing Affordability Dashboard
In addition to measuring progress against three regional housing affordability goals, the dashboard developed and maintained by the Minneapolis Fed monitors 10 housing-related indicators that reflect the full range of the housing market. It also provides context on how these outcomes vary across the Twin Cities region and compare to peer regions.
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Southeastern Rental Affordability Tracker
The tool displays the state of rental affordability and availability in the Southeast using 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) one-year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data from the US Census Bureau.
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Montana Housing Dashboard
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has developed a new data resource, the Montana Housing Dashboard, to both inform those addressing housing challenges in Montana and prepare for monitoring the impacts of land use regulation reforms on housing affordability if and when the state fully implements those changes.