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Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), said Monday he will not tolerate “abusive monopolies” dominating the mortgage market. “Abusive monopolies will not be allowed to take advantage of consumers anywhere in the mortgage market,” Pulte wrote Monday on social platform X. Pulte said last month that Fannie Mae and Freddie...

Germany’s government is entering constitutional “uncharted territory” in its effort to prevent the state of Berlin from seizing large portfolios of privately owned apartments from real estate companies, the Justice Ministry said.

Congress could act this year to help developers build housing near train stations and bus stops, in a bid to address what members of both parties see as an affordability crisis. Legislation to add apartments near transit would be the second major housing bill passed this year on a bipartisan basis, following the enactment in […]

Proposition 37 would let California issue $25 billion in bonds for down payment assistance, but more borrowing won't solve the housing shortage.

I understand why young families are choosing Fresno. It's one of the last places in California where you can still plant roots and buy into a community.

The trend marks a stark turn from earlier this decade, when sellers often received well above their asking price as home shoppers empowered by rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy that sent home prices soaring.

The building at 450 Union St. is rising to 20 stories above the once toxic, (mostly) cleaned-up waterway that emerged as the neighborhood’s scenic centerpiece.

More than 30 people arrested as officers clear at least 100 tents in central Lisbon and about 50 in Porto Police in Portugal have dismantled housing protest camps in Lisbon and Porto, baton-charging campaigners in the early hours of Sunday and arresting more than 30 people. The raids were the latest incident in days of clashes between police and campaigners who – inspired by similar camps in Spain – had sought to pitch tents in central squares to protest against the country’s deepening housing crisis. Continue reading...

A Florida woman has been charged with posing as her dead sister to have taxpayers pay her rent in Miami through a federal public housing program for low-income residents. The post Miami Woman Charged with Assuming Her Dead Sister’s Identity to Get Taxpayers to Pay for Her Housing appeared first on Breitbart .

Not long ago, a homeowner in America might reasonably wager they could sell their home fairly quickly, and for more than their asking price. That's unlikely to be a winning bet now.Across the nation, a stagnant housing market is leaving many sellers in limbo, unable to...

Not long ago, a homeowner in America might reasonably wager they could sell their home fairly quickly, and for more than their asking price. That's unlikely to be a winning bet now.

They’re trying to build middle-class lives in New York. But many 30-year-olds in the city feel worse off than their parents. Is it average adult angst? Or something more enduring?

In the city that never sleeps, impromptu sleepovers are, apparently, out.

At the University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Barbara, students get an unwitting education in navigating the housing market.

‘It’s next level corruption’

California Republicans are looking to voter frustration over taxes, housing costs, and Democratic leadership to revive their statewide fortunes in November, even as polls show gubernatorial nominee Steve Hilton trailing Democrat by a substantial margin.

The Treasury Department on Thursday moved to implement tenets of a bipartisan housing law Congress passed over the summer, including a ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes. Under impending regulations from the department, a large institutional investor cannot buy a single-family home starting on Jan. 7, 2027, with certain exceptions. The department is codifying...

Trump's executive order on housing aims to lower mortgage costs. Here's what it means for homeowners and buyers.

New Enterprise Community Partners data shows moderate-income renters facing some of the fastest-growing housing burdens.

Former Sen. Jon Tester praised the passage of the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act, noting its success in balancing restrictions on Wall Street investors with incentives for professional housing providers to increase supply.

Thousands of sailors in the Norfolk, Virginia, area will be living in upgraded barracks as a result of a $1.7 billion effort to modernize housing for them, Pentagon officials announced Friday.

With record numbers of adult children living at home with their parents, how can this arrangement work for everyone? Set ground rules from the off, respect each other’s privacy, and don’t revert to type, say the experts Whether they are fresh out of university and looking for a job, have recently been made redundant, are saving to buy a home or newly divorced, it’s becoming increasingly common for adult children to live at home with their parents. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 35% of men and 22% of women aged between 20 and 34 were living with their parents in 2025. I speak from experience: my younger sister lived at home with my mother for two years while she did her PhD, and I moved home for almost three years after becoming a single mother postpartum. In both of our situations, it would have been good to have some practical advice to make it work, with tensions sometimes running high and arguments inevitable. Continue reading...

Generation Z wants legislation that targets affordability and housing costs. Democrats think they can do it better than Republicans. About two-thirds of young adults struggle to cover housing costs. And recent housing numbers aren’t promising, either: Single-family housing starts and building permits, a measure of future construction, fell 4.56 percent and 4 percent in September,...

Young candidates who rent or live with parents say their generation is "in the thick" of the country's housing affordability crisis. They argue this gives them new energy to solve it for everyone.

Protests and fringe violence expose sharp divide between marginalised and immigrant youth and those with greater prospects Martina Miccichè was filming riot police kicking and beating a teenager with batons as they dragged him along Piazza del Duomo, the central Milan square hosting its cathedral, when she was struck by a flying object, causing a deep gash and bruising near her right eye. The journalist had joined hundreds of mostly young people marching through the northern Italian city on Saturday afternoon to protest over soaring living costs and unaffordable housing, echoing the wider wave of economic discontent fuelling protests across Europe. Continue reading...