Get a NEW artist-designed Marketplace sweatshirt when you donate $8/month ... for a limited time! Give Now

Finding affordable housing in an unaffordable place

Jun 10, 2015
Projects like Marin's Toussin Senior Apartments help but are tricky to finance.

Imagining affordable housing in New York

Apr 23, 2015
Bill de Blasio calls for 160,000 units of market-rate housing over the next decade.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at an event promoting transportation infrastructure aboard the subway earlier this month.
Michael Appleton - Pool/Getty Images

Public-private partnerships seeing funds cut back

Apr 7, 2015
The partnerships have an increased share of responsibility with decreased funding.

Many young people are not in a position to splurge

Sep 22, 2014
So how can marketers get them to purchase investments like houses and cars?

Why, for many, the price of homes is too damn high

Aug 7, 2014
One third of counties are less affordable now than they have been in 14 years.

How rising rents, falling incomes crush communities

Jun 30, 2014
The long tail of the recession still wreaks havoc on renters' real estate market.

Why won't millenials just buy houses already?

Jun 26, 2014
A new report stresses the problems millenials face in joining the housing market.

For public good, not for profit.

Thousand dollar house, million dollar view

Mar 3, 2014
One professor is sleeping in a dumpster to raise questions about U.S. home ownership.

Home ownership less affordable for middle-income Americans

Feb 19, 2014
Incomes aren’t going up—but the cost of homeownership is.

Low-income folks should build wealth, then buy a home

Aug 23, 2013
Home ownership can be a way for low-income folks to punch a ticket to upward mobility. But many experts say that low-income people should build wealth in other ways before they take on a mortgage.