Doors Close on Subsidized Tenants, Advocates Say
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Apartment listings in New York City now routinely exclude Section 8 voucher holders, marking a significant shift in the way many landlords have come to view the program.
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Burdensome state and local regulations hurt efforts to build housing that is affordable for low- and middle-income people, and the problem has only worsened over the past decade, a U.S. government report said on Monday.
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Business & money: Many have lost their homes after repayment pledge failed to avert repossession.
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Corporate housing can be a boon for developers during a buildingâs transition from rental to condominium or for condominium investors facing a sluggish market.
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Some residents plan to escape; some plan to protest; some hope to do all of that, and make a buck or two subletting apartments to Republicans.
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The Bush administration backed away Monday from a proposal that critics said would have forced many of the 2 million poor, elderly or disabled families who use government housing vouchers to foot more of the rent on their own or find substandard apartments.
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Smaller banks find problems in some commercial real estate loans.
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The nation's housing industry is in a free fall from the subprime mortgage crisis. The budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development could be facing big cuts. And the agency is still struggling to respond to a slew of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 -- Public housing officials decided Thursday to proceed with the demolition of more than 4,500 government apartments here, brushing aside an outcry from residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina who said the move was intended to reduce the ability of poor black people to...
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Putting its money where its policy goals are, Arlington County is taking steps to enhance the dwindling local supply of affordable housing.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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Thousands of tenants put up with poor housing because they fear eviction if they complain, a charity says.
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Many houses of worship are under threat, crumbling from years of neglect, or becoming targets for acquisition by developers in neighborhoods where choice real estate is scarce.
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An arena for limited political action thrives behind closed doors, and at lower levels of government.
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OTTAWA -- Gloria McKenna had given up on the home she had shared for decades with her husband and was looking for a smaller, more affordable place to live before the government changed a key program yesterday.
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''Cash-advance'' shops are treading where other small-business lenders fear to go.