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Housing recovery an upside risk to inflation

Unless the housing recovery proves to be much stronger than we expect, it won’t provide a worrying boost to core CPI inflation. Nonetheless, the housing market poses an upside risk to our view that core inflation will spend most of the next two years just below the Fed’s 2% target rate.

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