Affordable housing

Companies are already having a tough time finding enough office space in San Francisco and are decamping for lower-cost locations.

State officials are set to grant a private-equity firm building a passenger train to Las Vegas the ability to issue tax-exempt bonds, while requests for using the funding for affordable housing go by the wayside.

Getting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship has been an elusive goal. It will remain elusive, says DeMarco, in the absence of broader reform of housing finance, something that will require bipartisan support.

A development partnership is positioned to start building a low-income housing tower in Pawaa later this year following a recent tentative endorsement by the state of Hawaii to finance the $89 million project.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed an overhaul of an Obama-era rule meant to guide local jurisdictions in how they comply with the Fair Housing Act.

A fight over how to fix California's worst-in-the-nation housing shortage is about to heat up again in Sacramento.

Ramsey County, Minn. officials agreed to sell Wesely Pettiford's house back to his family, but obtaining financing to make badly needed repairs has been difficult.

There are an estimated 46,000 vacant homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, a surprising number in a region beset by a crippling housing shortage.

Officials hope a revamped Scranton, Pa., homebuyer program administered by a nonprofit partner will boost homeownership rates and bolster investments in city neighborhoods.

Downtown San Jose, which has been overshadowed by its Bay Area neighbors, is having a real estate development boom because it qualifies as an opportunity zone