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Our Solution to the Housing Crisis
New York Times · 18 September 2024
It’s becoming nearly impossible for working-class people to buy and keep a roof over their heads. Congress must respond with a plan that matches the scale of this crisis.
The American Dream Without a House? Believe It
New York Times · 7 September 2024
As housing costs soar, younger adults are trying to reimagine prosperity — without the white picket fence.
U.S. Mortgage Rates Continue to Fall
New York Times · 12 September 2024
The average rate on 30-year mortgages declined to 6.2 percent.
Who’s Responsible for the Housing Crisis?
Atlantic · 3 September 2024
Local government is driving a housing crisis that is raising rents, lowering economic mobility and productivity, and negatively impacting wages.
U.S. Accuses Software Maker RealPage of Enabling Collusion on Rents
New York Times · 23 August 2024
The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the real estate software company, accusing it of creating an illegal pricing scheme to charge tenants more.
Soaring Insurance Costs Could ‘End’ Affordable Housing, Developers Warn
New York Times · 25 August 2024
Developers and landlords of subsidized housing, who cannot raise rents or charge more for starter homes, say property insurance increases could put them out of business.
What Kalamazoo (Yes, Kalamazoo) Reveals About the Nation’s Housing Crisis
New York Times · 22 August 2024
A decade ago, the city — and all of Michigan — had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there explains today’s costly housing market in the rest of the country.
Kamala Harris wants to stop Wall Street’s homebuying spree
Quartz · 16 August 2024
The Democratic presidential nominee is targeting investors that buy up and mark up homes in bulk, a growing trend that’s making the housing and rental market more expensive for Americans, the Harris campaign said.
Inflation continues to subside, but Twin Cities housing prices aren’t helping
StarTribune · 15 August 2024
Interest rates, meant to tame inflation, have sidelined buyers and stalled new construction.
Minnesota is home to more than half of senior co-op living in the country. Here’s why
MPR News · 23 July 2024
The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed
New York Times · 8 July 2024
Opinion: Elevators in North America have become over-engineered, bespoke, handcrafted and expensive pieces of equipment that are unaffordable in all the places where they are most needed.
Apartments Could Be the Next Real Estate Business to Struggle
New York Times · 4 July 2024
Interest rates, ratcheted higher by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation, have made mortgages much more expensive for building owners.
Devean George’s north Minneapolis modular housing factory will open in fall, employ 320
StarTribune · 18 June 2024
Renovations are set to begin on a former printing press on N. Washington Avenue near the Minneapolis Farmers Market to transform it into a modular housing factory that will employ about 320 people.
What ‘boommates’ are and why you might want to join them
Washington Post · 18 June 2024
Thousands of baby boomers are living with intergenerational housemates — a setup that could help ease the housing crunch and cut global warming emissions.
Counterpoint: Actually, zoning changes are an answer
StarTribune · 16 June 2024
The land use status quo has long served to allow some cities to exclude affordable housing, in both explicit and implicit ways.