News Topic: Affordable housing

A new, 10-part podcast series examining housing blight; JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon baits President Trump; U.S. Bank returns to small-dollar lending; and more from this week’s most-read stories. ... Read full article

What happens when neighborhood revitalization is too successful? Some cities that have managed to eliminate blight now face acute shortages of affordable housing. ... Read full article

What does it take to combat vacancy in neighborhoods where it's taken hold? A look into one neighborhood in Baltimore that has bucked the trend, and the approach that city planners use to reinvest in blighted communities. ... Read full article

The nation's largest bank said Wednesday it is seeking proposals on ways to address economic inequality in local neighborhoods across the country. ... Read full article

Programs like Dollar Homes were supposed to shore up flagging cities in the 1970's and 1980's. What went wrong? ... Read full article

Baltimore residents think they have a solution to their vacant housing problem, but the challenge facing them is immense. ... Read full article

Housing blight — concentrated areas of vacant properties — is harming communities across the country and posing a risk to the financial system. But governments seem powerless to turn it around. We're finding out why. A special 10-part series by ... Read full article

There's a problem in America. Homes are decaying all over the country, even as affordable housing is becoming more scarce. Can we rebuild these communities before it's too late? A trailer introducing a special ten-part podcast series by American ... Read full article

There's a problem in America. Homes are decaying all over the country, even as affordable housing is becoming more scarce. Can we rebuild these communities before it's too late? A trailer introducing a special ten-part podcast series by American ... Read full article

As the demand for home rentals continues to rise, regulatory burdens could decrease the multifamily housing supply and drive up costs, witnesses said at a congressional hearing. ... Read full article

The bank said it has received subpoenas related to low-income housing tax credits; write-offs of bad credit card debt creep up. ... Read full article

Lending to problematic or serial evictors can cause people to be pushed out of their homes in the name of profits. Banks must adopt standards against this practice. ... Read full article

The Trump administration has argued that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, issued in 2015, was too prescriptive. ... Read full article

Multiple agencies are looking into its purchase of certain credits tied to low-income housing developments, the bank said in a securities filing Friday. ... Read full article

With values on multifamily properties soaring, some building owners are using aggressive tactics to push out existing tenants to make room for higher-earning ones. That’s raising questions about whether their lenders are abetting this behavior. ... Read full article

Michael Bright co-wrote a paper in 2016 that envisioned making the agency a backstop for the housing finance system, but appeared to distance himself from the proposal at his confirmation hearing. ... Read full article

The California Democrat would have more of a bully pulpit as chair of the Financial Services Committee, but some say she could take a pragmatic approach to passing banking legislation. ... Read full article

The Democratic congresswoman said the department under Secretary Ben Carson has turned "its back on its mission." ... Read full article