The National Low Income Housing Coalition put out its annual Out of Reach report this week. The results are pretty ugly. Rent is no longer affordable in any state. This has everything to do with wages that are too low to afford basic housing needs nationwide. It is no wonder, then, that homelessness recently jumped 12% in … Continue reading The intersection of wage stagnation and a looming housing crisis on Blog#42→
In my blog post, Living the Great Recession: Notes from our new digs, I described the living conditions in the apartment next door and many of the units in the complex we had just moved into.
By Chris Arnold Home sales have fizzled in part because Americans in their 20s and 30s are choosing not to buy. Only 16 percent of new home sales are to first-time homebuyers. A year ago, the housing market looked like it was finally recovering. Sales and prices were picking up. But then home sales fizzled. … Continue reading Sluggish Housing Market A Product Of Millions Of ‘Missing Households’ : NPR→
This web page contains curated news beginning January 1, 2019 through the end of the year. During 2018-19, I maintained a running post called “Things Trump Did While You Weren’t Looking I would love to do it again but need your collective support as it would be the only project I could work on. I … Continue reading Things Trump Did While You Weren’t Looking [2019] | Blog#42→