A couple of real estate and finance experts are digging into three year's worth of data to uncover how today's housing market conditions could be creating an environment that intensifies the already significant homeownership and wealth gap between people of ...
Read More »A Breakdown of FEMA’s New Flood Insurance Rating Procedures
The agency last week announced the first major update to its pricing system in 50 years—a new report assesses what that means for homeowners in flood-prone zones.
Read More »Could the ‘Wealth Effect’ Mean More Homes on the Market?
Equity gains allow a homeowner to keep pace with the housing market, but not necessarily outpace it—an economist explains.
Read More »HUD Removes Barriers to Puerto Rico’s Disaster Relief Funds
The Biden administration last February began working to remove spending restrictions put in place after 2017's Hurricane Maria, and now further progress has been made.
Read More »What is Preventing Homeowners from Selling?
Many market analysts comparing year-over-year metrics are looking at data from both 2020 and 2019 because, at this time last year, pandemic stay-at-home restrictions thwarted homebuying and selling, which makes some comparisons unreliable. No matter what numbers you are considering, ...
Read More »Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap Depends on Housing Factors
Lower home values and rates of homeownership account for a significant share of the difference between Black and White households' wealth. Researchers look at potential paths to improved equity.
Read More »HUD, City Leaders Discuss $5B to Further Housing Security
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary says she and local leaders cannot stand by when anyone in this nation, let alone half a million, lacks a safe home.
Read More »Forbearance Rate Improvement Expected to Continue
The number of active COVID-19-related forbearance plans decreased again, marking the eighth-straight week of recovery.
Read More »Gauging the Trajectory of America’s Racial Homeownership Gap
For decades the rate of homeownership among Black, Latinx, Asian, and other minority demographics lagged far behind the rate among White Americans. That is due to a history of structural barriers. The Urban Institute has found that even though those ...
Read More »Housing Market Metrics Show Record-Breaking Gains
Despite several obstacles, the only thing that seems to be slowing home shoppers is the short supply of available properties on the market.
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