• Affordable water may soon dry up, especially if you live here

    Affordable water may soon dry up, especially if you live here

    Jan 25, 2017 10:24 PM EDT

    ... prices continue to rise at the same rate (41 percent over five years), then a third of American households -- 40 million -- may lose access to affordable water, they found. The team examined median income data for individual areas in the U.S. to chart a map of the communities most ...

  • Trump to unveil plan for affordable childcare Thursday

    Trump to unveil plan for affordable childcare Thursday

    Sep 13, 2016 01:11 PM EDT

    DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump is rolling out proposals Tuesday to make child care more affordable for working families, including a plan to guarantee new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and create new dependent-care savings accounts. Trump will unveil the plans in a speech in a Philadelphia ...

  • Community health worker numbers boosted by Affordable Care Act

    Community health worker numbers boosted by Affordable Care Act

    Jul 08, 2016 02:19 PM EDT

    ... care has to go beyond the doctor’s office — especially for minorities and low-income people. Limited access to healthy food, environmental perils, crime, insecure housing, insufficient recreational opportunities and the absence of affordable transportation all can have a huge effect on a person’s health. These factors, often called ...

  • Why a severe housing shortage means reduced wages for workers

    Why a severe housing shortage means reduced wages for workers

    Jun 23, 2016 11:17 PM EDT

    ... and the policy-making in an urban environment, you need to figure out, not just a total unit amount, but how to make those units affordable for people who live here in the city. DUARTE GERALDINO: But, as economists point out, more total housing would lower rents for everyone. ENRICO ...

  • The housing shortage and homelessness in San Francisco. Is there a solution?

    The housing shortage and homelessness in San Francisco. Is there a solution?

    Jun 02, 2016 10:14 PM EDT

    ... coming out of homelessness and coming out of drug addiction and alcoholism and who are starting, so to speak, at the ground level, in the affordable units and the SROs. And they can climb out of that. And as somebody succeeds up that ladder, that frees up housing at every ...

  • Affordable options for college students are disappearing fast

    Affordable options for college students are disappearing fast

    May 11, 2016 03:55 PM EDT

    The converging trends of falling state investment, rising tuition, and stagnant incomes has finally pushed higher education out of the grasp of low- and middle-income Americans, even at community colleges, a new report contends. College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic ...

  • Justices uphold key tool for fighting housing bias

    Justices uphold key tool for fighting housing bias

    Jun 25, 2015 02:26 PM EDT

    ... through the Affordable Care Act. WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination, handing a surprising victory to the Obama administration and civil rights activists. The justices ruled 5-4 that federal housing law allows people ...

  • Will the Affordable Care Act spur reform of inmate health care?

    Will the Affordable Care Act spur reform of inmate health care?

    Mar 04, 2014 08:35 PM EDT

    Inmates with a history of mental health problems – and that’s almost 65 percent of them – or another long-term medical problem, like substance abuse, receive care on a regular basis while incarcerated. But upon release, which is often after just a few months of jail time, their connection to treatment vanishes.

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    Gap between housing price and income in London at unprecedented levels

    Sep 13, 2013 07:58 PM EDT

    Photo by Flickr user Julie70 Fear of a potential housing bubble emerged in London as the gap between local salaries and property prices doubled since 2009. According to a Sky News report, the average home in certain boroughs of London are now at 28.9 times the average salary of its residents. These new figures show...

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    How the Housing Market Could Shape the 2012 Election

    Jan 31, 2012 11:34 PM EDT

    A new Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed U.S. home prices fell for a third straight month in two Florida cities, Miami and Tampa. Jeffrey Brown discusses the housing market's role this election season with The Wall Street Journal's Arian Campo-Flores and Jed Kolko of the real estate website Trulia.