Affordable housing

When you think of high rents and overcrowding, you probably don’t think of farmland. However, according to a new report by the Urban Institute, rural communities are facing a lack of affordable housing, just like more densely populated urban areas. One hundred fifty-two rural counties throughout California, Texas and several southeastern states, among others, were […]

In Erie, Pennsylvania, where more than a quarter of residents live in poverty, many are in "chronic crisis mode," one social worker says.

Spain is in a housing crisis. According to the latest official figures from 2012, around 22,000 people are homeless, though more recent estimates from nonprofits say it could be closer to 40,000. And there’s a surplus of empty homes — hundreds of thousands of apartments owned by banks, repossessed during the country’s financial crisis between […]

Finding an affordable place to live in Miami-Dade is hard. The area consistently ranks as one of the most unaffordable places to live in the nation. And for moderate to low-income LGBTQ seniors, it can be even harder to find housing. “They are four times less likely to have children,” said Cindy Brown who manages the […]

CEO Spencer Rascoff talks surviving the recession to end up in a booming housing market.

Older evacuees in FEMA's transitional shelter program have special concerns when seeking affordable housing on the mainland.

Puerto Ricans in FEMA's transitional shelter program worry about where they'll go when the program ends June 30.

There's no official count of how many people lived in makeshift, informal housing but estimates put over half of the housing on the island as built informally.