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A Gen Xer struggles to afford housing and groceries, but her income is about $100 too high to get help
Melinda Binkley, 56, has tried to apply for safety net programs before but she's told her household…
Allie Kelly
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New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist. But getting that assistance is as unlikely as getting into Harvard.
When New York City briefly opened its housing voucher waitlist for the first time in 15 years, more…
Eliza Relman
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Luxury homes soar to 21 per cent market share; Affordable housing declines to 20 per cent in 5 years
In Q1 2024, of approximately 1.30 lakh homes sold across the top 7 cities, luxury homes priced abov…
ANI
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3 signs the housing market's affordability recession is finally ending
The housing market will see a rolling recovery as supply, price growth, and sales slowly improve, C…
Filip De Mott
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A boomer who lives on Social Security worries she won't get hired because she can't afford a car: 'I don't even have $1 in my wallet.'
Virginia Hambrick, 66, fears she may need to go back to work but also can't afford the necessary tr…
Allie Kelly
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Parents with young kids are fleeing New York City in droves. Skyrocketing housing and daycare costs are to blame.
Families with kids under six are leaving New York City at twice the rate of other New Yorkers.
Eliza Relman
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A policy that's supposed to create more affordable housing often backfires, leaving cities with higher home prices and rents. There's a way to fix that.
Inclusionary zoning is often so expensive that developers build less housing overall. Making it vol…
Eliza Relman
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A 62-year-old employed 'peak boomer' in California makes too much for affordable housing but lives in her car: 'I'll work until I drop'
Cheryl Simmons, 62, is a parking lot attendant making $42,000 a year who lives in her car in San Di…
Noah Sheidlower
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New York tech workers make $135,000 on average, but can't afford the vast majority of apartments on the market
Tech workers are flooding into New York City, but they're having a hard time finding places to live…
Eliza Relman,Madison Hoff
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If you want a high-paying job and a more affordable house, move to the Rockies or the South
Places like Utah and Idaho are doing well, but New York is becoming more distressed.
Juliana Kaplan
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China just unveiled the strongest remedies yet for its troubled housing market
Beijing is removing floors on mortgage rates, offering cheaper housing loans, and reducing minimum …
Theron Mohamed
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After 2 years of applying for the NYC housing lottery, she finally won her bid. Now she pays $1,000 in rent for her Manhattan apartment.
In 2018, the odds of winning the affordable-housing lottery were 1 in 592, The New York Times repor…
Amanda Goh
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The growing reason people can't afford to own a home
The climate crisis is leading many insurance companies to raise homeowner premiums.
Allie Kelly
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A San Antonio grandmother used guaranteed basic income to afford groceries and rent a house: 'It's changed my station in life'
Ingrid Sullivan, 48, is enrolled in San Antonio's basic-income pilot. She said it has helped her af…
Allie Kelly
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Meet the typical ALICE: Americans struggling to afford basic necessities but making too much to get help
The number of Americans who are ALICE — Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed — i…
Noah Sheidlower,Juliana Kaplan
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Arizona's Democratic governor squashed an effort to make homes more affordable as Biden travels to the state to promote his housing plans
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have cut away red tape that makes it harder an…
Eliza Relman
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Housing affordability has improved, but not by much
Buyers need to earn $114,000 a year to afford a median-priced home, 35% above the median household …
Yuheng Zhan
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More and more Americans are becoming 'ALICEs.' They can't afford rent and groceries but are falling through the cracks in the country's safety net.
The share of Americans in poverty has been falling, but more are stuck living paycheck to paycheck.
Noah Sheidlower,Juliana Kaplan
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The US needs immigrants to fill jobs, but can't house them. Nowhere makes this more clear than New York City.
As the US handles an uptick in asylum-seekers, pressure is mounting to solve the housing crisis.
Eliza Relman
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Google is co-funding a guaranteed basic income trial that gives families $12,000 a year to help keep them housed
Google's philanthropic arm is co-funding a $2.8 million guaranteed income pilot aimed at reducing h…