New Western grows U.S. affordable housing inventory by 6,540 in 2022 without building a single home
New Western, the largest national private marketplace for fix-and-flip residential investment properties, announced today that the company has made home ownership accessible for more Americans by growing U.S. housing inventory […]
Global Affordable Housing Shortage Builds Interest in Prefabricated Housing
Global demand for prefabricated housing is forecast to rise 1% annually through 2024 to 3.9 million units, boosted partly by the shortage of affordable housing throughout the world supporting demand […]
Finding a SAFE space
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 […]
Shortage of For-Sale Housing Accessible to Moderate-Income Buyers is Explored in New Report from Urban Land Institute and RCLCO
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 […]
What is the future of housing?
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 […]
Covenant Presbyterian invests in affordable housing
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 […]
NAR shows rift between housing availability and affordability
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 […]
One-third of Boomers report “Housing Affordability” anxiety at least once a month
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 […]
Exceptions to rule: Big cities where homes remain affordable
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 […]
For minorities, pain is severe decade after housing peaked
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 […]
WOODARD: 26% of housing markets reach new highs
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 […]
Michigan plan approval for plan to fight housing blight
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 […]
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