Enterprise released the latest in its quarterly report on Housing Tenure Trends, which examines patterns of owning and renting nationally and among subsets of U.S. households by age, race and income.

This blog offers a set of facts about housing markets that have been conveniently obfuscated or overlooked by a recent entry into the housing crisis denier series. With appropriate data comparisons and finer-grained looks at conditions in housing markets, we show that indeed there are reasons for concern about rental affordability on a national basis, so much so that the federal government needs to take a more direct approach to addressing this issue.