Affordable housing

A new city program approved by the Chicago City Council will offer vacant lots to affordable housing developers for $1 each.

The elimination of private activity bonds “would throw gasoline on a housing shortage," said John Chiang, California's treasurer.

As the economy improves and millennials move around the country in search of jobs, some are finding themselves far from the youth culture they learned to expect from city life in other parts of the country.

An emerging group of local entrepreneurs is taking up arms against the sky-high cost of living in the Bay Area, hoping to end once and for all the housing crisis crippling the region.

Fannie Mae is testing a conforming loan product that makes use of a New Hampshire law that lets manufactured housing in resident-owned communities get treated like units in a co-operative building.

The Worcester City Council has asked the city administration to identify affordable housing that might exist for people resettling here from hurricane-battered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Nearly half of all Memphis renters are "cost burdened,'' meaning they spend more than 35% of their household income on housing.

A six-lane highway lined with strip malls cuts through a patchwork of tamed lawns and suburban houses in Delran, N.J., where population has sprouted rapidly in recent decades.

The destruction of scores of houses and apartments in the North Bay fires virtually guarantees that the affordable housing crisis in Marin County, Calif., is about to get even worse.

The District of Columbia transaction may have potential on a national level.