housing market

The American dream: Is homeownership really the answer?

09/16/18

Can policymakers expand homeownership without endangering the financial system? Should they?

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The gentrification dilemma

09/13/18

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

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Building from strength: Inside cities' battle against blight

09/12/18

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.

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Dead pledge: The rise and fall of urban homesteading

09/11/18

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

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'Do you hear me?': How blight is hurting America

09/10/18

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

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Nobody's Home: A new podcast exploring the other housing crisis

09/09/18

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 Banker.

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Analyzing the <em>other</em> housing crisis

09/09/18

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 American Banker.

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Nobody's Home: A new podcast exploring the other housing crisis

09/06/18

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 Banker.

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FHFA needs to curb Fannie and Freddie's insatiable appetites

06/27/18

Instead of shrinking the GSEs, the housing regulator is letting them expand into a host of new products and programs.

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Housing bubble or not, the real estate market is in trouble

03/28/18

Despite soaring home prices, other factors needed to inflate a housing bubble are absent from the real estate market. But experts warn falling home values and rising mortgage defaults are inevitable, even if conditions naturally cool off.

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