Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS), (2012, 2015, 2018, 2021)
- URL
- https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/rhfs/data/puf.All.html
- Description
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Provides a current and continuous measure of financial, mortgage, and property characteristics of rental housing properties in the United States. The survey focuses on the financing of rental housing properties, with emphasis on new mortgages, refinanced mortgages, or similar devices such as deeds of trust or land contracts, and the characteristics of debt originations. The Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS) was first conducted in 2012. Prior to 2012, rental housing data were collected as part of the 2001 Residential Finance Survey. The 2012 RHFS included only multifamily rental properties. The survey was conducted as an all personal visit operation. U.S. Census Bureau Field Representatives (FRs) located owners or property managers and conducted interviews using paper questionnaires. The 2015 RHFS included single family rental properties in addition to the multifamily rental properties. The paper questionnaire was eliminated and all data were collected using an Internet-based questionnaire which allowed for a change in collection methodology. Property owners were sent a letter inviting them to self-respond to the survey. In order to mail letters to the owners, the owner information was researched online, by conducting an owner-seeker operation, and by doing a match to administrative sources before the data collection. Respondents that did not respond were followed-up by a Telephone Follow-up operation. The remaining noninterview cases were then followed-up in person by an FR.
- Sample
- Format
- Series - ongoing
- Country
- United States
- Title
- Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS), (2012, 2015, 2018, 2021)
- Format
- Series - ongoing