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Sources for International Housing Information
Government policy, trends, housing cost and affordability, living conditions and housing quality, and architectural styles.
Find the following books in Booth Library's main floor reference collection:
The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition by Call Number: HD7287 .E53 2012ISBN: 9781412989572Publication Date: 2012-06-13
Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture by Call Number: NA680 .E495 2004ISBN: 9781579582432Publication Date: 2003-12-09
- IMF Global Housing WatchThe Global Housing Watch tracks developments in housing markets across the world on a quarterly basis. It provides current data on house prices as well as metrics used to assess valuation in housing markets, such as house price‑to‑rent and house-price‑to‑income ratios.
- United Nations Compendium of Housing StatisticsThe United Nations Statistics Division is responsible for collecting official national statistics on housing stock and housing conditions generated from population and housing censuses. In 2005 the United Nations Statistics Division initiated a systematic and regular collection of basic statistics on housing by introducing a housing statistics questionnaire in the existing Demographic Yearbook data collection system.
