Biden pushes housing policy ahead of high-stakes debate with Trump
The Biden administration announced new plans to lower housing prices, a problem looming large with voters, ahead of the first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. As the week inches closer to Thursday’s debate, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the country the Biden administration has allocated $100 million to expand […]
Lawsuit Against Flagstaff Says New Housing Plan Violates Property Rights
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Goldwater Institute has filed more than $23 million in claims against the Arizona city of Flagstaff on behalf of more than 50 property owners in defense of their property rights, which it holds were violated by the new High Occupancy House Plan. Flagstaff, home of Northern Arizona University, had […]
And the Number #1 Housing Market in America Is …
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The average population of the top 20 metros on the WSJ/Realtor.com Housing Market Index is just 300,000. That’s not the whole story, however. For the first time in more than a decade, my wife and I are looking at moving. So it piqued my interest when I stumbled upon a […]
Housing is 'impossibly unaffordable' in these US cities
The story at a glance A new study has revealed that four California cities, led by San Jose, are among the 10 least affordable cities for housing. Honolulu was also included in the top 10 least affordable housing markets. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh, Rochester and St. Louis were identified as the cheapest large cities in the world […]
Barcelona to ban apartment rentals to tourists in bid to cut housing costs | Spain
The popular Spanish tourist destination of Barcelona has announced that it will ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2028, a surprisingly drastic move to curb skyrocketing housing costs and make the city more liveable for its residents. Barcelona’s leftist mayor, Jaume Corboni, said on Friday that by November 2028, the licences for 10,101 apartments currently […]
Labour under pressure to be more radical about reforming private renting | Housing
Although Labour has vowed to end no-fault evictions, ban bidding wars and impose deadlines for removing potentially deadly mould, it is pressing for more radical reforms to private renting amid fears that landlords will find new ways to evict tenants. Campaigning against the “rip-off private rented sector”, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow chancellor […]
Berkeley returns to build-to-rent market amid London housing shortage | Berkeley
Housebuilder Berkeley is re-entering the private rental market for the first time in a decade, launching a rental housing division to address a “serious shortage of properties” in and around London. The company built 3,500 private homes last year and is launching a build-to-rent business, aiming to build 4,000 homes in London and the South […]
Starting to Be Housing Bust 2 for Homebuilders & New Single-Family Houses
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes To get rid of ballooning inventories amid spiking cancellations & plunging sales, builders try to sell to rental operations, but they pulled back too. If a homebuilder cannot sell their ballooning inventory of unsold new houses to households, at current prices and mortgage rates, amid plunging sales and soaring cancellation rates of […]
Maine: First-Ever ‘LGBTQ Affordable Housing’ Project Set To Commence, Opens In Spring 2026
Portland, Maine. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images) OAN’s Brooke MalloryFriday, June 14, 2024, 5:15 p.m. Plans are underway to build Maine’s first LGBTQ+ affordable housing complex. advertisement The Equality Community Center in Portland, Maine has been years in the making, spearheading a project to create the first mixed-use facility in the heart of downtown. “To […]
STEPHEN MOORE: Biden’s Housing Scheme Could Ignite A Mortgage Crisis We Have Not Seen In 17 Years
Politicians in Washington, D.C., have very short memories, so they repeat the same mistakes over and over. It was only 17 years ago that the “subprime” mortgage crisis torpedoed the economy and sent the financial markets into the biggest tailspin since the Great Depression. Millions of Americans lost their jobs. One of the matches that lit that bonfire […]