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Affordable housing

In Oakland and elsewhere, health care is investing in affordable housing

by Raquel Maria Dillon
Mar 12, 2019
Kensington Gardens' experience is indicative of a developing trend.
Ameria Lipscomb at her Kensington Gardens apartment.
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More houses are rolling off the assembly line

by Amy Scott
Feb 22, 2019
Amidst a shortage of affordable housing, factory-built homes stage a comeback.
A nearly-finished house, divided in two halves, is about to be rolled out the factory doors.
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LA homeless advocates have a new tech tool for affordable housing

by Molly Wood
Feb 21, 2019
LeaseUp aims to make finding homes faster and easier.
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Rents are rising faster at the lower end of the market

by Amy Scott
Feb 19, 2019
Average rents on single-family homes rose by about 3 percent nationally in 2018, according to a report out Tuesday from CoreLogic, up from 2.7 percent in 2017. As it happens, that’s about how much average wages grew during that same period before you factor in inflation. But those increases are lopsided. For the fifth year […]
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Can tech really fix the housing crisis?

by Amy Scott and Bennett Purser
Feb 15, 2019
Start-ups want to make housing more affordable, but the crisis may too broad for them to solve
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Big tech companies have an affordable housing problem

by Ben Bradford
Jan 17, 2019
Microsoft is the latest tech giant to fund affordable housing projects in the white-hot real estate market where they are based. As part of a community building initiative in Seattle, Microsoft is pledging $475 million in low-interest loans to support housing construction projects over three years, with another $25 million marked for homelessness. There has […]
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Manhattan housing prices cooled in 2018

by Renata Sago
Jan 4, 2019
The median home sale in the borough has dipped below $1 million for the first time since 2015.
The median sales price for Manhattan property fell 4.4 percent in 2018.
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Manufactured homes make a comeback, with a lot more bells and whistles

by Molly Wood
Dec 27, 2018
Remember those days when you’d be on a road trip and all of a sudden a house would drive by in the other lane? Or more accurately, one half of a house, followed by the other half? You don’t see those double-wides much anymore. But with affordable housing harder to come by, manufactured homes are […]
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Here's the median cost of a home in different parts of the country

by Janet Nguyen and Amy Scott
Nov 28, 2018
The nationwide median for a new house is about $310,000.
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Sen. Warren goes after housing affordability

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 3, 2018
We keep hearing about an affordability crisis in housing. Home prices and rents are going up, while wages aren’t keeping pace. Add to that the shortage of homes for sale because builders aren’t building enough and current homeowners aren’t putting their homes on the market. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently introduced legislation to address the […]
A worker carries lumber while building a new home in Petaluma, California.
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