After rising for eight consecutive quarters, the homeownership rate was unchanged in the third quarter. A lack of homes for sale, and higher interest rates weighing on home demand, help explain why the recovery in homeownership has stalled. But household formation has held up, and the number of rental households saw the first year-on-year rise since the start of 2017.
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