Tag: Housing

Beltway Confidential

NIMBYs helped us avoid a repeat of 2008 and are keeping inflation sky-high in the process

Tiana Lowe Doescher · March 27, 2023 8:56 pm

California looks to spend some Medicaid money on housing

Associated Press · March 26, 2023 6:13 pm

In this May 21, 2014 photo, a sign sits in front of a new home for sale in West Des Moines, Iowa. The Commerce Department reports on sales of new homes in April on Friday, May 23, 2014.

New home sales grew slightly in February as mortgage rates cooled

Zach Halaschak · March 23, 2023 2:12 pm

Fire erupts at home owned by Elizabeth Warren’s son

Ryan King · March 21, 2023 5:56 pm

A sale sign stands outside a home in Wyndmoor, Pa., Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Existing home sales plunged in July as fears of a recession grow.

Home prices down year over year, breaking record 131-month streak of increases

Zach Halaschak · March 21, 2023 2:27 pm

Home sale signs are posted along Topanga Canyon road in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade as prospective homebuyers grapple with surging mortgage rates and a near historic-low level of properties on the market.

Home prices see first year-over-year decline since 2012: Redfin

Zach Halaschak · March 17, 2023 5:50 pm

FILE - A homeless person sleeps under a blanket while seated on a New York sidewalk. New York City officials are planning to remove makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments. Mayor Eric Adams disclosed the initiative in an interview with The New York Times on Friday, March 25, 2022, but provided few details. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation advances strategy to house homeless patients

Misty Severi · March 14, 2023 9:40 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, a man stands outside his tent on Division Street in San Francisco. San Francisco voters will decide in November 2018 whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services in a city struggling with income inequality. Supporters collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot.

Georgia’s homeless population has increased since 2020

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2023 12:37 pm

Bill aiding mobile home relocations sailing through Arizona Legislature

Washington Examiner · March 11, 2023 1:24 pm

Study shows more than a third of U.S. households, almost 41 million in total, pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing. The government sees anything at 30 percent or lower as affordable.Â (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Florida Senate passes affordable housing bill

Washington Examiner · March 10, 2023 12:37 pm

Democrats and GOP clash over legitimacy of ‘Twitter Files’

Christopher Hutton · March 9, 2023 7:44 pm

‘Shocking’ plunge in construction job openings as Fed rate hikes begin to sting

‘Shocking’ plunge in construction job openings as Fed rate hikes begin to sting

Zach Halaschak · March 8, 2023 8:34 pm