Affordable housing

San Mateo County, Calif., officials opted to spend $43.75 million over the next two years to boost the number of housing units geared at working families.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued proposals Monday to create pilot programs for loans on mobile homes, part of an ambitious plan for underserved and rural housing markets.

From housing finance reform to the latest economic projections, here's a look at the biggest stories and best insights from this week's Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in New York.

President Trump has nominated Pam Patenaude, the president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, to serve as HUD's No. 2.

Market rate developers would have to make 18% of rental units affordable to low- and moderate-income households under an ordinance the San Francisco Planning Commission approved.

The Louisiana agency that helps fund affordable housing developments across the state has revised its annual spending plan amid accusations from New Orleans housing advocates, developers and, most recently, Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the agency prioritized rural parishes over urban ones.

Wichita leads the nation in terms of affordable housing for teachers, according to a report released Thursday.

Affordable housing developers and advocates fear the reductions would be devastating for Minnesota, where a recent report by the Minnesota Housing Partnership found that one in four households pay more for a place to live than they can afford.

For almost four years, Seattle officials neglected to collect a $3.4 million payment for affordable housing from the developer of a high-profile, luxury condominium project.

The lender relationships resulted from a partnership the government-sponsored enterprise entered into with a non-profit housing group.

Mayor Sylvester Turner expressed optimism Monday about city efforts to resolve a federal finding that Houston housing policies violate the Civil Rights Act, saying U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told him last month he "is very pleased with the direction in which we are going."

A San Jose apartment owner has found a way to evict long-time tenants, jack up the rents on her units and collect government subsidies in the process — by leasing her apartments to homeless veterans.

Apartment rents continued to rise throughout most of Southwest Florida over the year, but rates in several cities declined.

Keeping a roof over your head in North Texas has never cost so much before.

Detroit was once known as a city where a working-class family could afford to own a home. Now it's a city of renters.

Freddie Mac is bolstering its relationships with housing finance agencies after it fell short of reaching two affordable housing goals last year.

Skyrocketing home prices and fierce competition for jobs in the Golden State are prodding poor families to pack up and head to Texas.

There's no affordable homes left in Boulder County, according to a new affordability study.

Bankers and housing advocates say many low-income housing projects simply won't get built if the White House and Congress move to eliminate two federal block grant programs.

The HUD inspector general reignited an ongoing dispute with housing regulators, saying $29 billion of Federal Housing Administration mortgages may be at risk because they relied on deceptive borrower-financed down-payment assistance.