The national Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) report for

2005-2007 is now available on the HUD USER web site, http://www.huduser.org/datasets/cinch.html .  The CINCH reports make use of the longitudinal features of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to trace what happens to housing units over time.

  The report is organized around two sets of tables: forward- looking tables that trace what happened to units that were in the housing stock in 2005, and backward-looking tables that trace the source of the 2007 housing stock.  The report is downloadable as a PDF file.

As in previous years, we will eventually be posting a corresponding Rental Dynamics report and a CINCH dataset.  We will also post metropolitan CINCH and Rental Dynamics reports for the metropolitan areas that were in the 2007 AHS metropolitan surveys, along with a dataset.  These are still in preparation.

This report was written by Frederick J. Eggers and Fouad Moumen of Econometrica, Inc., under contract with HUD.