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Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown called the proposal “an important step to ensure that we are fulfilling our nation’s commitment to fair housing in all of our communities."
Former US president Donald Trump has said Ireland's housing crisis is a 'good thing in one way' because 'people want to live in Ireland'
"We'll get the prices way down and then the interest rates down and then the home builders will start building again," Trump said.
The affordability crisis is starting to trump job prospects for new graduates, experts say, which could hinder Toronto’s economic development.
It comes as a Savills report found that population growth in Ireland exceeded the delivery of new homes by almost four to one.
Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has accused Fine Gael minister Peter Burke of listening to "too much Donald Trump" after suggesting that Ireland has record levels of home construction.
Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, presented his economic vision, proposing a sovereign wealth fund for infrastructure, reduced corporate tax rates for domestic producers, tax exemption on tips, an efficiency panel led by Elon Musk, energy emergency measures, a ban on mortgages for undocumented migrants, and affordable housing initiatives.
The latest U.S. domestic updates include California's veto on a bill to help undocumented immigrants buy homes, legal developments in Trump's and other high-profile cases, gun bans in California and Hawaii, high-profile endorsements in the presidential race, and a controversial housing project in New York's Little Italy.
1568 Nome Street sits empty these days, with windows and doors boarded up and signs warning of danger posted outside. No one lives here anymore – the city of Aurora, Colorado, evicted several hundred tenants and shuttered the apartment complex last month, citing numerous code violations. But presidential candidate Donald Trump keeps bringing it up.
For many voters, housing, childcare and taxes are deal-breaker issues. Here's a rundown of what each has said.
US domestic news covers a spectrum from progress in Los Angeles' wildfire containment to the Supreme Court's agenda on contentious cases. Highlights include Trump-era immigration changes, Supreme Court deliberations on educational religious freedom, and the real estate market facing mortgage struggles.
The Associated Press has found that the Trump administration has stalled at least $60 million in funding intended largely for affordable housing developments nationwide.
Action in Deschutes national forest for wildfire prevention plan follows Trump order to increase timber production
Mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in conservatorship after housing collapse in 2008
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
Don't expect big changes to mortgage rates soon, as the Fed maintains its cautious approach.
The Fed's impact on mortgage rates isn't direct, but it matters. Here's what to know about the central bank's latest decision.
NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans.
The new head of the U.S. housing regulator, a crypto investor with deep ties to Trump, wants to study using your digital coins for home loans. This is not a drill.
Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their ...
Inflation, high interest rates and market uncertainty are impacting housing affordability this summer.
A conversation with Rogé Karma about whether the Sun Belt is going the way of Los Angeles and San Francisco
Fed rate cuts are still on the table this year, but stronger-than-expected job data will keep policymakers on hold this month.
A bipartisan Congress has come to the rescue of vets at risk of losing their homes, after administrations from both parties tore up VA safety nets for homeowners.
Real estate billionaire Jeff Greene sees a housing boom once interest rates fall, and says he's worried about the US debt and a lack of immigration.
The Trump administration’s loudest attack dog of late holds an unlikely position: director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The FHFA’s 37-year old director, Bill Pulte, has been pounding the drums to get Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell fired. He’s …
Trump says the Fed’s high interest rates are keeping Americans from buying houses. There’s more to it than that.
How property taxes are forcing Americans out of their homes... (Second column, 3rd story, link)
(Bloomberg) -- At one midsized US mortgage lender, almost a quarter of customers who dispute property appraisals find that the value of their home had been...
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage has fallen to its lowest level in four months, welcome news for prospective homebuyers who have been held back by...
Details on President Trump's plan to get unhoused people off Washington D.C. streets are sparse. A legal advocate for the vulnerable population worries that means the focus will be on criminalization.
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice. The post Trump Is Trying to Make It Easier to Evict People From Public Housing appeared first on The Intercept.
Mortgage rate buydowns have become a mousetrap for homebuyers.
The long-term rate eased to 6.56% from 6.58% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, it was 5.51%, Freddie Mac said. Elevated...
The housing market is becoming more buyer-friendly after years of sharply rising prices
Economists expect the Fed to make the first rate cut of the year this week. Here's what that means for savings, mortgages, and more.
The Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis is home to George Floyd Square. Memorials and murals line the main thoroughfare, Chicago Avenue, lending a vibrant, colorful background for what would otherwise be ordinary neighborhood life. People stop to say hi on…
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Housing in America is about to get more expensive, thanks to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump that will take effect this Wednesday, October 1. The new tariffs include a 50 percent tax on imported kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percen…
Chronic homelessness is at a record high, but there's a shortage of housing, rehab and mental health treatment. One ambitious program in Utah is finding a way to offer all that plus jobs.
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage declined again this week, easing to just above its lowest level this year
MTG admits prices under Trump ‘have not come down at all,’ says young Americans have ‘no hope’ of buying homes More than nine months into his second term, President Donald Trump is struggling to deliver on a key campaign promise: making life more affordable. …
By Sarah N. Lynch, Chris Prentice and Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The internal watchdog for the U.S.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said on Saturday that the Trump administration is working on a plan to introduce the longer-term mortgages.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said that the Trump administration is working on a plan for the mortgages.
President Donald Trump appeared to propose mortgages with 50-year terms. Here's what to know.
President Trump recently floated the idea of 50-year mortgages. Longer home loans would lower monthly payments, but come with higher rates and added interest...
The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
The government shutdown threatens to cut off funding for food stamps, energy assistance and other programs that send money flowing into Connecticut.
Trump's proposals for a 50-year mortgage and a $2,000 tariff dividend represent short-term fixes to long-term problems.
President Trump shrugged off MAGA criticism over his proposed 50-year mortgage, saying "all it means is you pay less per month."
The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds.
Trump's team has been exploring new ideas to make homebuying cheaper — from 50-year loans to assumable mortgages. Here's what could go wrong.
Trump’s pitch was simple: longer mortgage terms mean lower monthly payments. But not everyone is buying it.
Experts say the outlook still depends on how long the trade-war fog hangs over households and businesses.
Trump said Thursday that he is instructing "representatives" to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, aiming to lower interest rates and monthly payments.
Vance and MAGA are miffed over one of Mamdani’s appointments, who appears to be a diehard advocate for affordable housing.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the state faces a $2.9 billion budget deficit this year, an amount significantly lower than what legislative...
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte confirmed a $3 billion mortgage bond purchase occurred Friday, the day after President Trump ordered a $200 billion buy to lower housing costs. Pulte also stated that the privatization of Freddie Mac and Fann…
A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help...and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
The home services sector is booming already worth nearly $700 billion and on track to top $1.4 trillion by the end of the decade. As the Trump administration...
While the San Francisco area had a lukewarm ranking, another part of the Bay Area was named the fifth-hottest market in the U.S.
Trump is rolling out a slew of new ideas focused on "affordability." A lot of them sound like proposals from Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders.
Samara, the factory-built ADU company co-founded by US chief design officer Joe Gebbia, has installed the first of a series of units in Los Angeles on the site of a home that burned down in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Last Thursday, Samara lowered a facto…
Bringing rich and poor together has major benefits.
A new analysis from Lending Tree shows that renting is less expensive than owning a home with homeowners paying roughly 37% more per month than renters.
We recently published an article titled 10 Best Affordable Housing Stocks to Buy. On January 27, Keefe Bruyette lowered the firm’s price target on D.R...
We recently published an article titled 10 Best Affordable Housing Stocks to Buy. On February 4, Raymond James raised its price target on PulteGroup, Inc...
We recently published an article titled 10 Best Affordable Housing Stocks to Buy. On January 16, BofA analyst Rafe Jadrosich raised the firm’s price target...
Trump's tariffs, heightened healthcare and housing costs, and a stagnating jobs market leaves more workers struggling.
Wasatch Global Investors, an asset management company, released its “Small Cap Growth Strategy” Q4 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be...
An environmental scientist’s analysis reveals who will win and who will lose in the push to put federal land into private hands
For decades, rising home prices have been an engine for middle-class wealth. Now a growing movement wants to slow — or even reverse — that trend. Are the politics around new housing development inherently stacked against them?
About two-thirds who don’t own a home don’t think they’ll be able to afford one.
At the hearing on "Bad Landlords," renters complained of junk fees, shoddy maintenance, and sky-high rents. It offered a preview of battles to come.
We can finally make housing cheaper and more affordable, if Congress can work together for two minutes and ignore Donald Trump.
A protest against an ICE detention center in Roxbury Township, New Jersey. Township officials are battling housing advocates over what’s known as the Mount Laurel doctrine. [ more › ]
Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg recorded a video with NYCHA tenants in Chelsea. The Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses are an issue in the race to succeed outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler. [ more › ]
The federal housing agency wants to shift money away from permanent housing and toward programs that impose sobriety and other conditions. Advocates warn that would push many back into homelessness.
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
Amtrak's Sunnyside train yard in Queens, with the Long Island City high-rises looming in the background. A resurrected proposal to cover the sprawling train yard has local residents asking questions. [ more › ]
BNY's new housing benefit comes as rising prices and borrowing costs make homeownership harder for workers earning below six figures.
Mamdani's first 100 days marked by childcare reforms, pothole fixes and polarising debates over affordability policies.
A new report lays out a blueprint for how more home construction would help the middle class and the overall economy.
The developers for the 175 Park Avenue in New York City have submitted permits for the proposed supertall skyscraper by SOM in Midtown Manhattan, which would become the third-tallest in the city if completed. Developers RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone have brou…
The city's housing authority has encouraged tenants with the expiring federal vouchers to apply for vacant public housing units. [ more › ]
A website with anonymous employee letters accuses the Trump administration of undermining work on housing discrimination. HUD says it's restoring "sanity" to fair housing enforcement.
Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani ruffled some feathers when they introduced a proposal to tax secondary homes in New York valued at over $5 million.
Homebuyers Sitting Out Season for Real Estate Deals... (First column, 6th story, link) Related stories:Companies, Not Consumers, to Cash In Big From Tariff Refunds...
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps
New polling shows only a quarter of non-homeowners believe they’ll be able to buy a home in the next five years. Chen Zhao, head of economic research at Redfin, discusses more.
Donald Trump decided to make some campaign ads for Democrats during a speech at The Villages in Florida this Friday. TRUMP: The Democrats start screaming, "Affordability, affordability!" — but they're the ones who caused the problem. They may have one good t…
Families receive food at the Reaching Out Community Services food pantry on March 25, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. City Harvest released its annual report on child hunger as families brace for deep cuts to SNAP. [ more › ]
Gov. Hochul announcing her “general agreement” with state lawmakers, which aggravated Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Gov. Kathy Hochul says the pied-à-terre tax's implementation is still being figured out. [ more › ]
Tenants face bleak prospects as economic uncertainty persists amid a potential resumption of fighting.
The presidential budget put GOP lawmakers in an awkward position.
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
Veteran groups hoped a Trump executive order would supercharge housing for homeless vets. That hasn't happened, and veterans' advocates want to know why.
My morning train WFH reads: • Land Appreciates. Homes Depreciate. The structure (house) is a depreciating asset: without continuous investment and updates, its value declines over time, even after renovations. The land is the appreciating component: long-term…
Eric Greene, 60, has been living in the Upper West Side in a single room for the last six years in a program run by Goddard Riverside. HUD is expected to issue a new funding request outlining the kinds of programs it will pay for next year by the end of Mo…
My mid-week morning plane reads: • Real-Estate Agents Are Quitting the Slow Housing Market: Four years into a struggling market, even agents who survived the initial shakeout are hitting their breaking point. Fewer sales, longer timelines, second jobs. (Wall …
The bill requires all shelters to provide high-speed broadband internet service. [ more › ]
The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 limits most structures in Washington, D.C., to roughly 130 feet, a rule rooted in early 20th-century fire safety concerns and a desire to preserve the city’s low, horizontal, neoclassical character, one dominated by…
People walk through a shopping district in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn on May 12, 2026, in New York City. HUD overhauled the way it funds the nation’s largest homeless prevention program, putting 2,800 New Yorkers at risk of losing housing. [ more › ]
The House has given final approval to a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing, with lawmakers in both parties eager to show progress on affordability issues ahead of this year’s midterm elections
The Senate has passed its most far-reaching housing reform legislation in decades.
"It looks great for Elon Musk right now, but if you’re a young person trying to buy a house, it looks pretty tough."View Entire Post ›
Congress overwhelmingly passed a massive affordable housing bill. Here's what it means for American households.
President Trump said he is putting off signing a bipartisan housing reform bill until Congress passes his SAVE America Act.
President Toddler, rather than signing a popular piece of legislation, is demanding the Senate GOP nuke the filibuster instead.
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is sabotaging a rare bipartisan…
The affordable housing bill had been passed by bipartisan support, a rare move in a deeply divided US Congress.
The senator said Donald Trump is stymying affordable housing because he's indifferent to the cost crunch.
The president took a win-win-win situation and found a way for everyone to lose.
The president abruptly canceled a signing ceremony for the bipartisan bill.
He’s applying a real-estate developer’s mindset to the nation’s highest office. But who is he building for?
Rising rents and prices outpacing wages provoke global debate: Is housing a basic right or an investment asset?
President Donald Trump downplayed the importance of a bipartisan housing bill in the Oval Office on Monday.
The President’s refusal to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill demonstrates his obliviousness to the economic concerns of voters, John Cassidy writes.
A $15 billion federal tax credit helps developers build homes that are no cheaper than the market rate.
President Trump says he is refusing to sign the bill without Congress first passing his sweeping voter ID bill.
President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put...
Congress overwhelmingly passed a massive affordable housing bill that is set to go into law, even though Trump refused to sign it
The housing bill can still become law overnight Friday without the president's signature.
While the law will go into effect without his signature, the president reiterated that he would not put his stamp on the landmark bill unless Republicans pass the SAVE Act
The housing legislation will become US law at midnight with or without President Donald Trump's signature.
Donald Trump is pitching a fit over a potential bipartisan legislative win in a futile attempt to advance the SAVE America Act.“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact t…
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle celebrated the landmark bipartisan housing bill becoming law overnight Friday despite President Trump's refusal to sign it.
As heat waves strain the power grid, passive cooling can help homes stay safer when the air goes out.