Affordable housing

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.

The steady pace of home price growth stretched into January, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic.

Poor families seeking affordable housing are better off in any other metro area than Las Vegas.

Bankers hope that new tax policy will respect the role of tax-assisted community development programs in encouraging business investment in distressed areas.

In Portland, as in other parts of the country, the recovery from the depths of the Great Recession has been profoundly uneven.

The Senate voted 58-41 on Thursday to confirm Ben Carson to be the 17th secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.