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2025 Kentucky Housing Overview
This publication provides timely updates to housing and population projections, as well as forecasted changes in homeownership and rental housing. This update also includes further information on various housing issues in Kentucky. In the last four years, Kentuckians have experienced several significant events with direct impact on the economy as well as housing.
Learn MoreChanges in Land Cover & Developed Land in Kentucky Counties from 2001-2021
A key input in the production of housing is land. Without suitable land, it is practically impossible to produce housing. In this 2025 paper, Dr. Lucas Taulbee examines county-level changes in land cover and developed land in Kentucky with data from the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Land Cover Database.
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