• WATCH: Biden announces 2023 budget plan to reduce deficit by $1 trillion in a decade

    WATCH: Biden announces 2023 budget plan to reduce deficit by $1 trillion in a decade

    Mar 28, 2022 03:29 PM EDT

    ... months or maybe years," Gimigliano said. While the budget would elevate funding for education, public health and provide $48 billion to increase the supply of affordable housing, it fails to spell out what the broader successor to Biden’s stalled “Build Back Better” agenda would be. That proposal from last ...

  • Rising rents squeeze Americans across the country

    Rising rents squeeze Americans across the country

    Mar 17, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    ... for renters, but those who aspire to rent too. Last November, the city's affordable housing report card showed St. Louis got an F in affordable housing for Black households, renters, and people with the people with the lowest incomes. Tenant-led housing groups say, when you then add a ...

  • 6 months after arriving in U.S., Afghan evacuees still worry about the families they left behind

    6 months after arriving in U.S., Afghan evacuees still worry about the families they left behind

    Mar 04, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... to resettle fewer than a dozen evacuees or none at all, according to the Associated Press.  Resettling Afghan evacuees has come with complications due to affordable housing shortages and medical issues, including COVID and a measles outbreak. In addition, the new arrivals face a tough road ahead because they are ...

  • Read Joe Biden's full 2022 State of the Union address

    Read Joe Biden's full 2022 State of the Union address

    Mar 02, 2022 03:42 AM EDT

    ... child care, to be able to get back to work. My plan doesn’t stop there. It also includes home and long-term care. More affordable housing. And Pre-K for every 3- and 4-year-old. All of these will lower costs. And under my plan, nobody earning less ...

  • Can 3D printing become a solution for the housing shortage?

    Can 3D printing become a solution for the housing shortage?

    Feb 23, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... in need build and upgrade homes, has high hopes for 3-D-printed houses, at a time when labor and material costs are skyrocketing and affordable housing is more and more scarce. Jonathan Reckford, CEO, Habitat for Humanity: And so our hope with 3-D printing is, this is the ...

  • Experts say Brazil's deadly mudslides reflect poor planning in the face of climate change

    Experts say Brazil's deadly mudslides reflect poor planning in the face of climate change

    Feb 18, 2022 07:46 PM EDT

    ... high risk. Yet another 7,000 would also need to be relocated, according to a plan devised by the city which called for construction of affordable housing units and a halt to new construction in at-risk areas. Guerra, Valverde, non-governmental organizations and residents say little has been done ...

  • With housing costs rising, tiny homes offer one solution to address homelessness

    With housing costs rising, tiny homes offer one solution to address homelessness

    Feb 07, 2022 09:51 PM EDT

    ... supply of affordable housing is a good thing,” said Nan Roman, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “We have a huge shortage of housing — around 7 million fewer affordable housing units than there are households that need them.” Housing and health are inextricably linked. In a 2019 study ...

  • Almost half of New Orleans residents are renters. Advocates worry an eviction crisis looms

    Almost half of New Orleans residents are renters. Advocates worry an eviction crisis looms

    Jan 12, 2022 07:52 PM EDT

    ... jobs and livelihoods and deepened their financial instabilities. Multiple storms, including August’s Hurricane Ida, added to the long list of challenges in providing stable affordable housing.  WATCH: What to know about the eviction moratorium as it nears expiration again Jennifer Arcement and Donnie Diket are one of those families ...

  • Safety doors failed in Bronx apartment fire that killed 17 people

    Safety doors failed in Bronx apartment fire that killed 17 people

    Jan 11, 2022 04:32 PM EDT

    ... Property Group is one of three firms in the ownership group that purchased the building in 2020 as part of $166 million purchase of eight affordable housing buildings in the borough. One of Camber's founders, Rick Gropper, served on Adams' transition team, advising him on housing. He contributed to ...

  • 19 dead, including 9 children, in NYC apartment fire

    19 dead, including 9 children, in NYC apartment fire

    Jan 09, 2022 10:59 PM EDT

    ... the building.”The 120-unit building in the Twin Parks North West complex was built in 1973 as part of a project to build modern, affordable housing in the Bronx. The drab brown building looms over an intersection of smaller, aging brick buildings overlooking Webster Avenue, one of the Bronx ...