One well-worn refrain of progressive urban politics is that new, “luxury” housing will not help solve the housing shortage. A 2024 study of U.S. voters found that 30 to 40 percent believed more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to ban families with any member who is undocumented from living in federally subsidized housing. A proposed rule also would ...

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New housing starts were low at the end of 2025, according to the latest New Residential Construction report released Wednesday by the Census Bureau, signaling continued weakness in the U.S. housing ...

Scott Turner is the secretary of housing and urban development. Mixed-status households. Ineligible noncitizens. Public housing. These three phrases were never intended to coexist under one federally ...

Dunning, 54, spent nights on the street, in shelters, in hospitals, on friends’ couches and in a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he said he saw neighbors carted out in body bags.

The House and Senate recently passed their first significant bills in decades aimed at solving America’s housing shortage. Now, the two chambers will work on fine-tuning and reconciling both bills ...

The first six weeks of 2026 are in the books. It is time to circle back on the housing sector for several key reasons. First, housing related activity makes up roughly one sixth of GDP and currently ...

In late 2025, American households faced an extraordinarily unsatisfactory housing environment, marked by record-high prices and rents that outpaced income growth. The flawed policies that produced ...

On Monday, the House voted to pass a landmark bipartisan housing affordability package by an overwhelming 390-9 margin. The legislation, part of a bipartisan federal push to improve housing ...

The House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at making it easier for everyday Americans to purchase a home, an issue that's become a cornerstone of the affordability crisis plaguing much of the ...

The Housing for the 21st Century Act, led by House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) and ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), passed the chamber 390-9 on Monday, an unusually lopsided ...