Housing

The plan is up from the previously announced 200,000 homes.

Sonoma County, Calif., renters, property managers and housing advocates say the October wildfires grabbed hold of a constrained rental market and squeezed it by the throat.

As Congress debates tax reform and which deductions to remove, a majority of homeowners from both parties worried that rising property taxes could force them to sell.

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.

Renita Barbee has begun packing up the belongings in her rented South Los Angeles home. She was trying hard to hold her composure as she told her story the other day.

Pricey U.S. housing markets, from the New York suburbs to California's coastal cities, could take a direct hit under the tax-reform bill released by House Republicans.

From Secretary Carson easing lending concerns to Fannie Mae announcing its expansion of Day 1 Certainty, here's a look at seven things we learned at the 2017 MBA Annual.

A House Republican tax proposal that infuriated housing groups and sent homebuilder stocks sliding would only have a modest impact on the market for new homes and could end up being a net positive for the industry, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts.

Hopes that tax reform might soften a weakening of the mortgage interest deduction were quickly dashed as the GOP plan landed a double punch on the incentive cherished by the mortgage and housing industries.

Orlando theme-park worker Daisy Hernandez was struggling to find an affordable rental even before Hurricane Irma squeezed Central Florida housing options and Hurricane Maria pushed Puerto Ricans to the mainland.

Officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have started to develop a plan to provide housing to some of Puerto Rico's displaced population.

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 Canyon 2 wildfire has been contained for more than a week, but aftereffects from the 9,200-acre conflagration still are rippling throughout Orange County, Calif.

Some housing groups are warming to an idea that they say could help more Americans benefit from housing-related subsidies than the mortgage interest deduction.

A limited housing supply fueled by the San Francisco Bay Area's booming job growth and decades of slow construction has forced home values and rents to near record highs.

For the past eight years, Brian Montgomery has helped mortgage lenders fight penalties sought by the Federal Housing Administration. Now he's President Trump's nominee to lead the agency.

Soot and ash are still settling over the Sonoma County, Calif., housing market, but real estate brokers and lenders contend the fiery destruction of a few thousand properties here will make it harder for both buyers and renters to find new homes.

California faces a different set of housing challenges from other U.S. areas that are reeling from recent natural disasters.

Hundreds of federally subsidized housing residents in Pittsburgh's East End are being forced from their homes because of squalid conditions.

For families with household incomes below $50,000, the improving housing market in 2016 meant rising prices, and fewer homes and apartments they can afford to rent or buy, according to a report from HousingWorks RI.