When students graduate from a new kind of school in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 20 or 21, they could end up owning a house. The program, called Build UP (Urban Prosperity) Birmingham, is unlike ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. First, a simple explanation of a complicated system of financing using tax ...
Do you want to know an unfortunate but unsurprising fact? According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, it's estimated that nearly half of all US workers cannot afford a one-bedroom ...
Housing prices have soared, new home buyers have increased, and the number of available houses have failed to increase at the same rate. Meanwhile, well-funded, corporate landlords can be difficult ...
Evette Gilard’s skin itched so badly that it woke her one night in early 2019. When she searched her apartment, she discovered a thick rind of black mold in the threshold of her bedroom closet, and ...
Christmas came early for two families in Springfield, Massachusetts today as they were selected in a lottery to become first-time homebuyers. When she saw a news story a couple of months ago that the ...
Vintage Housing purchased the empty skyscraper at 707 Broadway with plans to start construction on an office-to-residential ...
Apartments and condos are springing up all over Wilmington faster most people can keep track of. Some of the new developments, but not enough, are low-income housing, something the Wilmington area is ...