• What experts are forecasting for renters and homebuyers this year

    What experts are forecasting for renters and homebuyers this year

    Feb 20, 2025 09:19 PM EDT

    ... Northeast, where rents are already high, will see prices increase. Vince Wang, a research fellow at Grounded Solutions Network, said people already struggling to find affordable housing will be most affected. “Across the income spectrum, the affordability crisis will get worse,” Wang said, adding that lower-income households and people ...

  • Puerto Rico's new governor takes office amid anger following major blackout

    Puerto Rico's new governor takes office amid anger following major blackout

    Jan 02, 2025 07:58 PM EDT

    ... Hurricane María slammed into the island in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm, razing the electrical grid. She also faces pressure to create affordable housing, lower power bills and the general cost of living, reduce violent crime, boost Puerto Rico’s economy, with the island locked out of ...

  • AI, housing and other top issues for state lawmakers in 2025

    AI, housing and other top issues for state lawmakers in 2025

    Jan 02, 2025 02:37 PM EDT

    ... done in January 2024, showed an 18 percent rise in the number of people experiencing homelessness from 2023. Experts agree the country’s lack of affordable housing is at least partly to blame for the burgeoning homelessness crisis. Some state legislatures passed housing reform last year, he said. That includes ...

  • U.S. homelessness rose 18 percent in 2024, continuing multi-year upward trend

    U.S. homelessness rose 18 percent in 2024, continuing multi-year upward trend

    Dec 27, 2024 11:58 PM EDT

    ... of the count. “Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing,” Renee Willis, incoming interim CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, in a statement. “As advocates, researchers, and people with lived experience ...

  • U.S. sees dramatic rise in homelessness among families in 2024

    U.S. sees dramatic rise in homelessness among families in 2024

    Dec 27, 2024 11:55 PM EDT

    ... is, our housing crisis has reached such a scale of proportion that we're seeing more and more bipartisanship around the need to solve our housing crisis, to build more affordable housing, to build more different kinds of housing from homeownership to rental and everything in between. And so that ...

  • In St. Louis, a new reparations report details how the city can act on racial injustice

    In St. Louis, a new reparations report details how the city can act on racial injustice

    Dec 04, 2024 09:24 PM EDT

    “However, we are pleased that some ideas, such as providing assistance for homeownership, creating more affordable housing, revitalizing neighborhoods, establishing free public wifi, and investing in public health, are already underway or have been implemented by this administration,” Jorgensen wrote, adding that the proposed direct cash payments would “significantly ...

  • Sarah McBride reflects on becoming first openly transgender person elected to Congress

    Sarah McBride reflects on becoming first openly transgender person elected to Congress

    Nov 12, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... Affordable Care Act passed, and on what I would do in Congress, and that's to focus on bringing down costs facing families, to provide affordable housing, childcare, and health care to every single one of my neighbors. And voters responded to that even with all of the anti-trans ...

  • Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party edges ahead in gubernatorial election

    Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party edges ahead in gubernatorial election

    Nov 06, 2024 04:29 PM EDT

    ... established parties. A growing number of voters old and young have said they were tired of persistent corruption, chronic power outages and a lack of affordable housing, among other things. Their search for new leaders has begun to loosen the hold that the New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic ...

  • Puerto Rico general election promises to be historic

    Puerto Rico general election promises to be historic

    Nov 05, 2024 06:56 PM EDT

    Like other voters, Hernández said he was tired of the island's chronic power outages and worried about a lack of affordable housing. Education, health and public safety also were on voters' minds as they marveled at the long lines despite forecasters issuing flash flood warnings for the capital of ...

  • 'We are not going to wait.' How the Cherokee Nation is trying to solve a housing crisis

    'We are not going to wait.' How the Cherokee Nation is trying to solve a housing crisis

    Oct 18, 2024 03:14 PM EDT

    ... on the United States to come to the rescue.” Sarah Saadian, senior vice president of public policy and field organizing for the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said the lack of affordable housing is made worse by the United State’s history with colonization and forced resettlement of tribes from ...