New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted the fulfillment of one of his campaign promises Friday after the Independent Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze, saying more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments will have their rent frozen next year.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan escalated his attacks on fellow Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer on Wednesday, accusing the billionaire former hedge fund manager of attempting to use his wealth to buy the California governor’s office despite a record that Mahan argued conflicts with Steyer’s current political message.
There are three keys to increasing affordability. One that’s never mentioned is teaching teenage students financial literacy or the basics of money management.
President Donald Trump is expected to deliver a prime time address on Wednesday evening, where he is slated to tout some of the major accomplishments of his administration while also previewing what is to come in America’s Golden Age.
House Republicans will be pursuing a “very aggressive legislative agenda” come January, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) previewed on Tuesday.
The Trump White House is working to fix the affordability crisis, making “significant progress” in this area after Americans suffered under Bidenflation for years, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out during Thursday’s press briefing.
Socialist Zohran Mamdani won his election in New York City because bad policy gutted the possibility of the American dream, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said during a discussion with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.
Calling it a “Biden-style government takeover,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is promising to help a New Jersey family trying to save their 175-year-old farm from being seized by a local government to build “affordable housing” units.
A considerable majority of Canadians believe the country is “broken” as housing and food costs soar and concerns over the healthcare system.
The Salt Lake City Council voted Tuesday night to approve a land lease that will pave the way for the construction of a village of affordable tiny homes. The village will provide a cost-effective means of proving housing to the homeless population of the city. The project is modeled after an already successful program in Austin, Texas.
A report from the Urban Reform Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy shows that first-time home buyers who earn middle-class paychecks are being pushed out of U.S. cities across the United States because of high prices.
The notion that the March Consumer Price Index marked peak inflation was dealt a sharp blow by the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book on Wednesday.
Corporations are buying up mobile home parks across the U.S. and owners of the manufactured housing are being hit with increased rent for lots and new property requirements.
California law all but ends single family home zoning, but San Francisco leaders want even denser housing in single family home neighborhoods.
Comedian Dave Chappelle recently found himself in a heated debate that for once had nothing to do with transgender people. The stand-up comic was involved in a fierce exchange at his hometown council meeting in Ohio this week over a local developer’s plans to erect a housing development with a low-income housing component.
A protest broke out in Salt Lake City last week after the city council voted for zoning changes that allow homes to be replaced by apartments.
The Build Back Better Act, or the Democrats’ social and environmental spending bill, includes financial incentives for state and local entities to change zoning laws, specifically those that would replace single-family homes with multi-unit properties to provide more “affordable housing.”
The Livermore, California, city council has voted to build 130 homes only available to people with lower incomes in the downtown area.
Mayor Bowser wants to add $150 million to the Housing Production Trust Fund this fiscal year and $250 million more for 2022.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reintroduces legislation that would cancel and forgive nationwide rent and mortgage payments throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon, the multinational online retail corporation owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is pledging to fund $2 billion worth of affordable housing projects in three United States cities after driving up home prices and rents.
A teenager who put together a Black Lives Matter protest in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, said she was billed nearly $2,500 for police overtime by the mayor, prompting anger from civil liberties advocates who pressured the town’s mayor to rescind the bill.
Democrat presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to crack jokes at the Democrat presidential primary debate in South Carolina on Tuesday night and received little laughter from audience members.
Democrat presidential hopeful Tom Steyer claimed he would “force” American towns to accept new, affordable housing in certain areas while speaking at the Democrat presidential primary debate held in Atlanta, Georgia, at Tyler Perry Studios on Wednesday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders are introducing a Green New Deal housing bill.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company will contribute $2.5 billion to help the state of California deal with lack of affordable housing.
Illegal aliens living in New York City, New York will soon be eligible to rent subsidized housing,which is already limited in quantity amid a homeless crisis and skyrocketing rents.
Oregon is gearing up to change zoning laws to allow communal living spaces and multi-family units in single-family home neighborhoods.
An attempt by California Democrats to increase affordable housing by ending zoning restrictions near urban transit stations was dropped last month due to a revolt by the urban poor whom the bill was ostensibly intended to benefit.
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature wants to solve the state’s housing crisis by increasing taxes and fees on real estate to fund more affordable housing.
The California legislature is responding to spiking Bay Area rents by moving bills that would force cities to loosen restrictive land use rules that have impoverished renters and created massive profits for apartment owners.
The Democrat-dominated California legislature is trying to move over 100 new bills to end the housing crisis with higher taxes and more subsidized housing.
San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.
From CNS News: Speaking at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday about affordable housing, Vice President Joe Biden said home ownership helped him pay for his children’s college education, even if that would
