What’s Happening in Nevada: A Housing Deficit
While housing is in short supply across the country, the problem is particularly acute in Nevada. Here’s why the state is experience a shortage of single-family housing starts. The post [...]
Is Homeownership Losing Out to Renting?
A new report shows a steady trend of depleting homeownership over a 10-year period. And that current market conditions are not making the trend especially reversible. Here’s why. The post [...]
Former ‘Foreclosure Capital’ Experiments With Anti-Poverty Measure
Stockton, California—once a hub of foreclosure activity still struggling economically—is attempting to help fight local poverty and housing insecurity with a bold experiment involving Universal Basic Income. The post Former [...]
Providing Perspectives, Factoring Fundamentals
In the CoreLogic U.S. Economic Outlook for July, Frank Nothaft, SVP and Cheif Economist, explains the price-to-rent ratio as an additional metric on markets that are flagged as 'overvalued'. This ratio [...]
Coastal Home Insurance and a Hurricane Forecast
A report found that homeowners along the coast as well as home insurers will breathe a sigh of relief at the latest hurricane forecast as well as the resiliency of [...]
Montgomery on the Road Ahead for FHA
During a press event Tuesday, Brian Montgomery, FHA Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing, spoke about his near-term priorities for FHA, including updating the organization’s technological infrastructure, filling staff vacancies, [...]
Aligning Housing and Sustainability Goals in California
It has been a decade since the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (Senate Bill 375) was passed in California. Recently, a study by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at [...]
HUD Approves U.S. Virgin Islands Disaster Recovery Plan
As the first anniversary of the 2017 Hurricanes approaches, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a multimillion-dollar plan to aid the recovery efforts in the U.S. Virgin [...]
Delinquencies Increase in Hurricane Impacted States
The states impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria continue to see a rise in serious delinquencies a year later, according to a report. Here are the details. The post [...]