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Is the Coronavirus Crashing the American Housing Market? Yes, but No.
It's no secret that COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the economy. Any economist can tell you that we're in unprecedented times. The closest time in history to this was approximately 100 years ago with the so-...
Students Weigh Choices as Colleges Reopen
The vast majority of America's universities closed down entirely in the middle of March, three months ago now, leaving tens of thousands of students who stayed on-campus without anywhere to live. For most of these students, th...
Trump Destroys These Obama-Era Laws Against Housing Discrimination
One of the biggest issues in housing is equality. There is a consistent problem with minority and lower class residents being forced into tightly clustered groups of unsafe and out of date housing. When the m...
CMHC Warns of Housing Market Collapse
Over the past few decades, no nation has grown in terms of citizenry like Canada. With their welcoming, diverse policies and strong economy, Canada has definitely grown in size since the 1990s, and their housing market has been one of t...
Students Receive Much-needed Help With Affordable Housing
Many people are at risk of losing their homes. The elderly, who live on fixed income, are a large at-risk group. However, many people forget that infants, toddlers and school-age children are also at a high risk of ho...
United States Housing Industry Makes a Huge Comeback
The American housing market has made a big comeback between June and the end of September, according to a report released on October 1. This has happened even though the economy as a whole is still struggling to make gains...
COVID-19 Exacerbates Housing Instability in African Americans
In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization to be a pandemic. Workplaces started shutting down. Local and state governments curtailed activities and instituted closures of retail, restaur...
Baltimore Sun Defends Landlords
Baltimore, Maryland has a very long history of unsatisfied renters. When the rest of the popular mainstream American media speaks about things like "ghettos" and "slums", Baltimore is usually their apex example of how things have fallen apart...
NRP Group to Build Affordable Housing
The NRP Group has just broke ground on affordable housing in the north of Austin, Texas. The group is known nationally as a "best in class" housing developer and builder, and their focus has turned in recent years to affordable housing,...