Daily Graphic: 2008 – Why Do People Move?

The blog over at Zillow.com has an interesting post with a bunch of charts related to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Geographical Mobility Study.  Here’s one of them:

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The Daily Graphic: St. Louis Fed Chart – Mortgage Denial Rates by Loan Type, 1999 to 2008

The chart below comes from the St. Louis Fed’s National Economic Trends for May.  It appears lenders did tighten their purse strings, but perhaps not enough, nor quickly enough.