Housing

Rising home prices and climbing mortgage rates pulled down affordability to the lowest point since before the housing market crash.

Under the Federal Housing Finance Agency's plan, small Home Loan banks would face a new housing benchmark and a volume threshold for meeting the goals would be eliminated.

The fight for stronger rent control in California appears headed for a fiery demise, according to the latest poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday to streamline housing development around BART stations and ease the Bay Area's epic affordable housing problem at the expense of local officials' decision-making powers over land use.

Thirty states told the Council of Development Finance Agencies they issued mortgage revenue bonds in 2017 compared to only 18 that issued mortgage credit certificates.

The Bay Area's soaring housing costs are pushing poor people into neighborhoods where poverty and racial segregation are on the rise, a UC Berkeley study found.

Tax foreclosure filings in Philadelphia have skyrocketed 1,200% since 2010, so the city is promoting its homestead exemption to keep people in their homes.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development took the very rare step of filing a secretary-initiated fair housing complaint — only three were made in the last two fiscal years — against Facebook.

The U.S. is siding with fair housing groups that claim Facebook's ad targeting tools permit discrimination based on sex, religion, familial status and national origin.

Proposals to force Bay Area cities to allow housing development at BART stations and to help those squeezed by the new federal cap on tax deductions were among the bills to survive the latest round of cuts Thursday at California's Capitol.