• Input from the unhoused may be crucial solution to homelessness in San Francisco

    Input from the unhoused may be crucial solution to homelessness in San Francisco

    Jul 06, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    ... their life. Jennifer Loving: The more that people are understanding how powerful this is, the more in demand they are. There's an undersupply of housing that's affordable in every city in this country. Stephanie Sy: In San Francisco, another organization has taken working with a homeless community advisory ...

  • For families, the negative effects of incarceration continue far beyond time served

    For families, the negative effects of incarceration continue far beyond time served

    Dec 11, 2020 11:33 PM EDT

    ... letter about the family, along with press clippings showing all their accomplishments. Sheena Meade: No one should have to have to do that to have affordable or safe housing, but that was our reality. Mary Williams: Xcellence wants other kids to know there's no shame in having a parent ...

  • Airbnb details years of losses ahead of planned IPO

    Airbnb details years of losses ahead of planned IPO

    Nov 17, 2020 12:27 AM EDT

    ... Airbnb's massive growth hasn't been without complications. The company has angered some cities that accuse it of promoting overtourism and making neighborhoods less affordable by taking housing off the market. Cities like Los Angeles, Barcelona, Paris and even Airbnb's home city of San Francisco have passed laws ...

  • Are adult foster homes a good long-term care option?

    Are adult foster homes a good long-term care option?

    Jul 15, 2018 02:52 PM EDT

    ... home nearby and help guide you to other community services. As the population of older adults continues to increase, so will the need for supportive, affordable, community-based housing. “They're going to be sicker, they're going to be a less financially stable, have less assets, have fewer children ...

  • Architecture becomes a tool to fight poverty through this Pritzker winner

    Architecture becomes a tool to fight poverty through this Pritzker winner

    Jan 14, 2016 12:52 AM EDT

    ... Alejandro Aravena, it's a practical and aesthetic solution to a real world problem: growing urban populations and too little public money available to build affordable, but livable housing. ALEJANDRO ARAVENA: It's not half of a house. It's half of a good house. And the good is the ...

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    Protecting Its Fannie: How Mortgage Giant Primed the Bubble, Covered Its Assets

    Jul 01, 2011 10:26 PM EDT

    ... comment on any of the charges in the book. But its supporters say it was trying to do something almost all politicians believed in: making housing more affordable for more people, especially the less well-off. So, isn't homeownership good social policy? GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Not if you're giving ...

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    Dismal Home Sales Report Renews Economic Recovery Concerns

    Aug 24, 2010 09:38 PM EDT

    ... mortgage rates are low, people buy more houses. It's not working this time. Why? SUSAN WACHTER: Mortgage rates are at historic lows, and also housing prices have fallen, so that housing is affordable. But the fears of weak job growth, possibly losing a job, possibly the fact that wages ...

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    New Details Emerge on Mortgage Relief Plan

    Mar 04, 2009 09:30 PM EDT

    ... families avoid foreclosure. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that "it is imperative that we continue to move with speed to help make housing more affordable and help arrest the damaging spiral in our housing markets, just as we work to stabilize our financial system, create jobs and ...

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    Public Housing Renewal

    Sep 18, 2003 04:00 AM EDT

    ... realize their full potential to become whatever they want to become in life. There is no way you would have mixed income communities of public affordable market rate housing if you were going to have CHA as nothing more than a dumping ground again. It would never work. ELIZABETH BRACKETT ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on the busy first week of the new Trump administration

    Brooks and Capehart on the busy first week of the new Trump administration

    Jan 24, 2025 11:30 PM EDT

    ... she could have been able to do it, but Trump did it. And so we have much greater grounds to hopefully the home building. And housing can be affordable for young people. So that's a very positive thing that Trump people did. On immigration, I obviously don't approve ...