Meanwhile, the percentage of mortgages for non-Black homebuyers in these communities is increasing and housing prices continue to climb.

Call it the Pokemon Go desert.

The latest chapter in The Urban Institute’s “Our Changing City” series is here.

The number of rentals available for under $800 a month shrunk by half between 2005 and 2012.

If you don’t count mortgages, the average debt in D.C. is $15,896.

In a massive new study from the Urban Institute, D.C.’s underground sex economy decreased by 34 percent from 2003 to 2007.

From the Urban Institute comes a series of maps that show how Washington, D.C.’s demographics changed from 2000 to 2010.

A new report from the Urban Institute says that while the D.C. area weathered the late-2000s recession “relatively well,” the region still endures a stubbornly high unemployment rate and a poverty rate of about 8 percent.

Today, the Washington Examiner returns to a theme we’ve noticed (and scratched our collective temple at) a number of times over the past year. It seems that Fannie Mae and the Urban Institute have conducted a survey showing that many District families are leaving the capital for the suburbs, due, according to the Examiner piece, to poor schools, excessive condo construction, and high housing costs. Says the article:Most housing booms are “primarily driven by the…

Pinpointing development patterns in a growing urban area is not an exact science. If it were, no one would ever go belly up after betting on a hip neighborhood for their new restaurant or investment property, and we wouldn’t have to argue about what value a baseball stadium might or might not bring to the city. We can identify a couple of general rules, however. For instance, in a rapidly growing, quickly congesting city, a…