Housing Issues
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‘We feel like it’s rent gouging’: Renters meet with Biden administration officials to decry steep increases by landlords
With rental prices rising nationwide, there has never been a better time to examine how high housing costs impact everyday…
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Black, Native American and Latino families are feeling inflation burn more than white peers, poll says
Faced with the nation’s worst inflation in four decades, Black, Latino and Native American families are already having more issues…
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An inflation crisis ‘on steroids’: Advocates urge Congress and Biden administration to help tenants facing rising rents
To observe an inflation crisis “on steroids,” look no further than America’s rental housing market, famed sociology professor Matthew Desmond…
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‘I want this person very uncomfortable’: Corporate landlords harassed tenants, filed evictions during pandemic, House investigation finds
An executive for the Siegel Group, a Las Vegas-based real estate company, allegedly told staff in Texas they could “get…
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With rents at record highs, ‘it’s tough to see how renters — whether or not they want to buy a home — will ever catch up’
Tenants are caught between too-high rents and too-high homeownership costs, depriving them of the American Dream. That was the bleak…
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Housing’s ‘great slowdown’ is here, as mortgage originations and spending fall, Bank of America says and these cost-effective cooking tips won’t leave you with an empty stomach — or wallet
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. This startup founded by former Airbnb employees lets you try out vacation homes…
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Investors snap up homes at a furious rate — in some regions they bought as many as 20% of houses for sale
First-time homebuyers who struggled to snag a property this past spring might have been competing with deep-pocketed investors. While the…
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Is the housing market in a recession? Here’s what economists are saying and mortgage rates fluctuate, fall slightly on the back of the Fed’s rate hike
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Is the housing market in a recession? Here’s what economists are saying Economists…
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Are you a millennial? Your net worth has likely doubled since the pandemic began and the No. 1 emerging real-estate market in America is also the RV capital of the world
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Are you a millennial? Your net worth has likely doubled since the pandemic…
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Everything you need to know about the economic recession that we are definitely not in right now
It’s getting wild. We’re already hearing a lot of loose talk about the economy this week, with the Federal Reserve…
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