Looking for information on the latest data releases on housing and related topics? Want to stay abreast of changes in major housing data collection programs? Housing Data News, brought to you by DataPlace, aims to be your first-stop source for news related to housing market data. Look to this page for the latest information on newly released data, links to Federal Register Notices related to major housing data collection programs, and highlights from relevant reports and research.

DataPlace News DataPlace Launches New Beta Site DataPlace™ Introduces New Beta Site for Exploring and Analyzing Neighborhood Data at beta.dataplace.org June 18, 2008 Anderson Speaks at Google: "Free Harmonized Data to the People" KnowledgePlex CEO Troy Anderson delivered a Google Tech Talk on the history, mission and future of DataPlace. He described the many challenges of collecting, organizing, classifying and displaying data online. We encourage you to watch the ... DataPlace Blog  |  February 22, 2008 Features Web Data Links The Web Data Links section of DataPlace™ is your definitive and comprehensive guide to housing and related data on the Internet. November 2, 2005 Federal Register Notices According to the federal Paperwork Reduction Act, before a federal statistical agency can collect data from households or businesses, it first must submit an information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Moreover, the agency must provide the public with a 60-day period to provide comment to the agency on the draft ICR before it goes to OMB. Once the agency submits the final ICR, the public has 30 days to provide comment to OMB. The agency announces these opportunities for comment in the Federal Register, and invites the public to obtain a copy of the draft or final ICR. To encourage its readers to participate in the public review and comment process regarding federal statistics, Housing Data News provides links to the Federal Register notices concerning ICRs and, when possible, to the ICRs themselves. Typically, an ICR is approved by OMB for three years; once the period approved is up, the agency must go back to OMB with a new ICR. In doing so, it may or may not propose significant changes in the data-gathering effort. Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB (30-Day Comment Period) HUD Office of Policy Development and Research ICRs. July 15, 2005