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Historical Housing Prices Project
The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project at the Philadelphia Fed provides new data on the price of housing for sale and for rent over the 20th century using the real estate sections of historical newspapers. The data cover 30 major cities, including Philadelphia.
CREED advances research in many fields, including topics in regional economics and consumer finance, by converting information in books, images, and other formats into ready-to-use, publicly available digital data. The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project, now housed at the Philadelphia Fed, began with support from the National Science Foundation (SES-1918554), the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Trinity College in Dublin, with principal investigators Allison Shertzer (now at the Philadelphia Fed), Ronan C. Lyons (Trinity College Dublin), and Rowena Gray (University of California, Merced). As part of our efforts to ensure a strong overall economy, the Philadelphia Fed identifies housing-related issues and informs solutions.
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