Hispanic homeowners make up a huge portion of potential future housing demand in the country. The problem is that many can’t afford to buy homes, a new report says. Hispanics will account for more than a third of all new households formed between 2013 and 2020 – more than any other racial http://lipitorgeneric-online247.com/tricor-cholesterol-meds.html or ethnic group, according to the report “Hispanics & Homeownership: Closing the Gap” by the Demand Institute, a think tank jointly operated by Nielsen and the Conference Board. Hispanics “are this generation’s baby boom, who are raising families and really going to drive that next wave of [housing] demand,” said Jeremy Burbank, a vice president at the Demand Institute and Nielsen. Even as the homeownership rate nationally has fallen to 30-year lows across the country, Hispanics added about 200,000 owner-occupied households in 2013.   Continue reading at wsj.com

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