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In 2022, San Jose, CA, was the hottest market for millennial homebuyers in the United States. Millennials in San Jose were responsible for nearly ** percent of the house purchase requests. Denver, CO, and Boston, MA, completed the top three with over ** percent of purchase requests. Which are the states with the youngest population in the U.S.? It should come as no surprise that the demographic composition plays a central role in the development of the housing market in different states. In 2020, the median age in the United States was 38.2 years, but some states, such as Alaska, District of Columbia, and Utah had much younger population. In contrast, Maine, Puerto Rico, and Hampshire had the highest median age of population. Millennials’ attitudes towards homeownership While many millennials have given up on homeownership, one in ***** people share that they are in the process of saving for a home purchase. These results suggest that young Americans have not entirely given up on the American dream of owning a home of their own.

In 2023, the District of Columbia had the longest waiting period among other states to obtain public housing accommodation in the United States. The average waiting period in the District of Columbia was 191 months, much higher than the national average of 20 months. California followed, with a waiting period of 60 months. Hawaii and New Jersey were some other states with protracted waiting periods, all exceeding 40 months. Nebraska, Puerto Rico, and Iowa, also reported shorter waiting times, ranging from eight to nine months. Public housing in the U.S. is owned by local agencies, which receive allocations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to build, operate, and improve the housing conditions.

In 2023, New York had the highest number of public housing units among all the states in the United States. The number of housing units in New York was approximately 180,000, more than three times higher than the next two states in the ranking, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. In contrast, Vermont had the lowest number of public housing units, at just 421 units. Additionally, Wyoming and Idaho were among the states with notably limited housing units available for occupancy, each reporting fewer than 1,000 units.

In 2023, Vermont had the highest proportion of public housing households where either the head or co-head of the family had a disability in the United States. Approximately 82 percent of the households in government-aided housing in Vermont had a person with a disability, much higher than the national average of 30 percent. Idaho and New Hampshire also saw high numbers, at 78 and 66 percent, respectively. In contrast, Puerto Rico had the lowest percentage of households with either a head or co-head with disabilities, registering just eight percent.

In 2023, Alaska recorded the highest annual average household income of public housing residents in the United States. The annual average income of government-subsidized housing in Alaska had an annual income of more than 34,000 U.S. dollars, much higher than the national average of 18,284 U.S. dollars. Additionally, California and New York were among the states where residents earned notably higher, both states exceeding 24,000 U.S. dollars. On the other end of the spectrum, Puerto Rico had the lowest average public household income, amounting to just 5,644 U.S. dollars.

Knowledge of the optical properties of the components of the forest canopy is important to the understanding of how plants interact with their environment and how this information may be used to determine vegetation characteristics using remote sensing. During the summers of 1983 and 1984, samples of the major components of the boreal forest canopy (needles, leaves, branches, moss, litter) were collected in the Superior National Forest (SNF) of Minnesota and sent to the Johnson Space Center (JSC). At JSC, the spectral reflectance and transmittance characteristics of the samples were determined for wavelengths between .35 and 2.1 micrometers using the Cary-14 radiometer. This report presents plots of these data as well as averages to the Thematic Mapper Simulator (TMS) bands. There were two main thrusts to the SNF optical properties study. The first was to collect the optical properties of many of the components of the boreal forest canopy. The second goal of the study was to investigate the variability of optical properties within a species. The results of these studies allow a comparison of the optical properties of a variety of different species and a measure of the variability within species. These data provide basic information necessary to model canopy reflectance patterns.