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Homeownership
What role should household wealth play in determining a student’s financial aid package?
Jun 24, 2024
The FAFSA does not ask about two key measures of wealth – the family home and retirement accounts.
Nearly 1 in 4 Black borrowers are denied a mortgage
Jun 19, 2024
Comparatively, 1 in 10 white borrowers are turned away.
These mobile home residents decided to buy their park to combat rising rents
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Madi Bolanos
Mar 25, 2024
As Californians deal with rising rents and a housing shortage, one group of mobile home park residents in Fresno County secured affordable housing for themselves by purchasing the land from the park’s corporate landlord.
Owning a home now takes a bigger chunk of Americans' incomes
Dec 21, 2023
A report out Thursday from the real estate data firm ATTOM finds that a home, and all its related costs, now eat up about 34% of the average wage nationwide.
Federal oversight may be hindering Native American homeownership, GAO report finds
Oct 30, 2023
Delays in the BIA approval of real estate transactions could have exposed Native homeowners to climbing interest rates and construction costs.
Co-buying a house with your best friend
Jul 27, 2023
The lack of affordability has spurred “nontraditional setups” like this partnership between women who trust each other and work well together.
The past, present and future of “Hard Bargain” Tennessee
Jul 4, 2023
A historic home in Franklin, Tennessee, serves as a monument to generational sacrifice.
For public good, not for profit.
Black homeownership climbed early in the pandemic. Is progress stalling?
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Matt Levin
Jun 19, 2023
Higher mortgage rates could disproportionately hurt Black homebuyers.
Forever homes come in all shapes and sizes — and ages and states of (dis)repair
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Sarah Leeson
May 23, 2023
It will need “a lot of TLC," Candice Sides said about the 19th-century log cabin she bought to be her family's eventual home.
How a decline in home sales also trips up retail
May 16, 2023
When people buy new homes, they buy a lot of other things too, like furniture, appliances and electronics. When home buying slows, that can have a real ripple effect on other industries.