Homeowners in major metros are holding onto properties for longer periods, with Los Angeles topping 20 years and state tax laws helping discourage moves.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies award will fund up to 300 apartments, with city officials expecting sharply lower utility costs for residents.
With the number of residents over 65 growing four times faster than the rest of the population, legislators are advancing more than 20 bills and a long-term plan to reshape aging services.
State lawmakers pursue homeowner tax cuts, but counties, schools and towns face shortfalls.
Updating outdated titling laws may expand low-cost financing for one of the nation’s most affordable housing types.
As red states build far more homes, New York’s stagnating housing production risks population stagnation and a projected loss of two U.S. House seats and Electoral College votes.
Ranking near dead last among major cities, the city is launching a public-private Housing Gateway program aimed at coordinating services and moving people into housing faster.
New eviction data underscores the state’s housing crisis, as a school board member’s case shows how quickly tenants can be displaced amid scarce affordable housing.
Despite fears they’d shift Idaho left, newcomers from California are reinforcing the state’s conservative tilt.
Legislators aim to reward localities that ease land-use barriers and expand housing supply amid a statewide shortage.
Public officials can make the greatest difference when they focus on their communities’ housing, transportation and utility costs.
It’s important to give renters a stronger voice. And we need to make big bets on new ways to build.
A century of increasingly restrictive zoning has priced out lower-cost housing, and new limits on how homes are used risk deepening the affordability crisis.
Officials have pledged faster permitting and infrastructure fixes, but residents point to broken promises after earlier wildfires.
Homeowners' associations do plenty of beneficial things. But sometimes they go too far, testing the tension between individual and community rights and leading to states’ efforts to restrict their powers.
Maura Healey broke new ground as the first woman and first openly gay candidate elected governor in Massachusetts, but her priorities have been firmly focused on quality-of-life and cost-of-living issues like housing and transportation.
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