When victims of domestic violence in the Charlotte area find themselves in all too familiar moments of crisis, Karen Parker and the team at SAFE Alliance hope they know they can turn to them for help. But one of ...

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The shortage of housing affordable to moderate-income home buyers – including first-time buyers — and solutions to increase the supply are explored in a new report from the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Housing and leading real estate ...

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Global market research company Ipsos has released its inaugural issue of “What the Future” (WTF), a quarterly research series. The report asks important, forward-facing questions about top consumer-spending categories including transportation, health care and food. The first WTF focuses on ...

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At a time when Charlotte’s need for affordable housing is so great and the funding to build it is so scarce, a new model to finance its development could be the solution. Local congregation, Covenant Presbyterian Church, has made a ...

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Existing-home sales are forecast to expand 1.7 percent in 2017, but a new housing affordability model created jointly by the National Association of Realtors and realtor.com, a leading online real estate destination, operated by operated by News Corp subsidiary Move ...

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While it is too soon to tell how the new administration will affect the construction and cost of affordable housing, the nation’s 75 million baby boomers are weighing in with their housing concerns. According to a new survey of 1000 ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Until recently, Christina Brouk was living with her parents. Now, still in her early 20s, she’s living the American dream of home ownership — the same dream that’s grown elusive for many young adults since the ...

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WASHINGTON – When the U.S. housing bubble peaked a decade ago, soon to burst with far-reaching consequences, the pain was particularly severe for black and Hispanic Americans. A disproportionate number of minorities succumbed to subprime mortgages and foreclosures and lost ...

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Homes are priced higher than ever before in more than a quarter of U.S. housing markets. This results from steady home value growth in recent years, which allowed many housing markets to eclipse previous records set during the housing bubble, ...

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The federal government has approved Michigan’s $74.5 million plan to help homeowners statewide avoid foreclosure and eliminate blight in Detroit and Flint. Approval of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority’s plan by the U.S. Department of ...

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