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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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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
Can 3D-printed homes could help solve America's housing crisis
In 2021, SQ4D in Long Island, New York, listed the first-ever 3D-printed house for sale. Homes made…
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Some workers are choosing housing and student loan benefits over a retirement plan, and it says a lot about America's cost-of-living crisis
Companies and workers are rethinking job benefits, with a growing focus on non-traditional perks li…
Cork Gaines
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Here's how long it would take to build enough homes to fix the housing crisis
Realtor.com's Hannah Jones spoke to Business Insider about the housing crisis, ways to solve this, …
Madison Hoff
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The European housing crisis warping millennial life: The average Croatian lives with parents until 33
Croatians are struggling to leave home, and it's often down to unaffordable housing and an influx o…
Joshua Zitser
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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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4 of the most competitive rental markets in the country added virtually no new apartments in 2023. It shows the housing crisis isn't going away.
Multifamily housing construction is beginning to slow down as interest rates and construction and i…
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…
Theron Mohamed
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A fight over sewage is preventing Long Island from solving its crippling housing crisis
Many residents in Suffolk County, Long Island, are waking up to groundwater contamination and a hou…
Eliza Relman
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The 'peak boomer' crisis might only get worse: A fifth of Americans 50 and up have no retirement savings, and the majority are worried they won't have enough money
Many Americans headed toward retirement don't have the funds. It could contribute to the peak boome…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey,Madison Hoff
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How the candidates running for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat say they'll solve California's housing crisis
Housing affordability and homelessness are two of the top issues on California voters' minds. It co…
Eliza Relman
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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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A conservative fix for the housing crisis is making homes cheaper and more abundant in Texas
American cities and towns are in desperate need of affordable new starter homes. They should follow…
Eliza Relman
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The 2008 housing bust suggests China's only halfway through its property crisis. Here's how the downturns compare.
Once a crash begins, it tends to last a long time, and Goldman Sachs forecasts China's current real…
Phil Rosen
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A working-class immigrant neighborhood in Queens banned cars along a major road. The new park is a 'superhighway of kids and families and neighbors.'
Jackson Heights, Queens, was the 'epicenter of the epicenter' of COVID-19. Now, it's a model for re…
Eliza Relman
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The housing market's inventory crisis is finally easing
"Sellers who were on the fence in 2023 are now listing. They're more used to elevated rates now," s…
Filip De Mott
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Europe's central bank cuts interest rates for first time in 5 years
The European Central Bank announced it would lower its benchmark interest rate from 4% to 3.75%, ma…
Theron Mohamed
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It's even harder to find an apartment in Syracuse than in the New York City area — and it's a sign the housing crisis is far from over
Housing shortages have made rental markets in places like Syracuse, New York, and Greensboro, North…
Eliza Relman
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Americans are facing a credit card debt crisis
The US is facing a credit card debt crisis as balances and delinquencies soar.