Sep 21 A quarter of all renters spend half of income on housing By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger About one quarter of all renters spend at least half of their paychecks just to keep roofs over their heads, and those numbers will only grow in the next 10 years, new research suggests. Continue reading
Jan 21 Supreme Court divided over housing bias case By Sam Hananel, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday in a debate over a decades-old strategy for fighting discrimination in housing. Continue reading
Jan 20 World’s first 3-D-printed apartment building debuts in China By Justin Scuiletti Exclusive: WinSun builds world’s first #3Dprinting villa and tallest 3D printed apartmenthttp://t.co/2km9k62NCx pic.twitter.com/J6oJK9qYO3 — 3D Printing & 3Ders (@3dersorg) January 18, 2015 A Chinese company has set another world first… Continue reading
Dec 12 Watch 7:47 Should a federal health program pay to house L.A.’s homeless? By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane Continue watching
Jul 30 Watch What the economic rebound looks like around the country By PBS NewsHour The American GDP grew at a 4 percent annual rate in the second quarter of the year, surpassing most predictions. But will the upward swing continue? Jeffrey Brown gets a snapshot of economic recovery around the country from Shirley Leung… Continue watching
Jul 13 Two African cities top list of most expensive places for American expats By Xander Landen Luanda, Angola is the most expensive city in the world for Americans to live, according to Mercer’s 2014 Cost of Living Rankings released this month. N’Djamena, Chad, took the second-place spot. Continue reading
Jun 12 Poll shows liberals, conservatives worlds apart not just on politics By Domenico Montanaro Liberals and conservatives don’t agree on much when it comes to politics. But it runs even deeper than that, a new Pew Research Center poll finds. The most polarized on the right and left disagree on where to live,… Continue reading
Feb 24 Poetry exposes truth about public housing in the Bay Area By Victoria Fleischer For Deandre Evans, Will Hartfield and Donte Clark writing poetry isn’t solely about expressing themselves, it’s also about reporting on a story that’s affecting their community. Through the Off/Page Project, a collaboration between Youth Speaks and The Center for Investigative… Continue reading
Feb 06 The housing crisis: What’s the Fed’s excuse? By Charles Calomiris, Stephen Haber The massive increases in risky mortgages and thin bank capital requirements underlying the financial crisis wouldn't have been possible without the Fed’s willing participation. But the Fed doesn't act alone. In this adaptation of their forthcoming book, Charles Calomiris and… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Robert Shiller on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics Robert Shiller on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics… Continue watching