The burden of soaring housing costs is primarily driven by the fact that the United States does not have enough housing to meet demand. 9 Home construction in the United States fell significantly ...

The Pew Charitable Trust has a valuable new report on how state and local governments destroyed much of their potential low-income housing stock by banning or severely restricting "single-room ...

Imagine two apartment complexes in Chicago: one that will cost $380,000 per unit to build and another where expenses are $790,000 per unit. The second might conjure up images of luxury amenities and ...

For developers trying to finance an affordable housing project, the process is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle — but every piece comes with a fee to take it out of the box and requires attorneys ...

The governor has promised to streamline the state's complex and costly system for funding low-income housing. His final year ...

Since the 1930s, the federal government has subsidized local housing projects aimed at uplifting the poor. The specific policies have evolved, but the theory has been that federal aid is needed ...