---
"title": "Optimists About Housing Prices"
"description": "As recently as June, more than six-in-ten Americans (62%) still expected U.S. housing prices to continue to rise."
"date": "2007-08-30"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2007/08/30/optimists-about-housing-prices/"
---

# Optimists About Housing Prices

Despite already extensive news coverage of weakness in the housing market, a substantial majority of Americans in a June Pew Research Center survey said that they expected housing prices to continue their rise of recent years; on the other hand, nearly two-in-three among the public rated the current economy as “only fair” (40%) or “poor” (25%) compared with 33% who rated it “good” or “excellent.” [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/516/are-americans-out-of-sync-with-economic-reality)