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US Home Sales in 2024 Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly 30 Years as Prices, and Mortgages, Soar

LOS ANGELES — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in 2024 to a nearly 30-year low for the second time in as many years as elevated ...

US Home Sales in 2024 Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly 30 Years as Prices, and Mortgages, Soar

LOS ANGELES — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in 2024 to a nearly 30-year low for the second time in as many years as elevated ...

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California Housing Crisis Will Get Worse as LA Fires Destroy Homes

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-...

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Veterans Are Bright Spot in Dismal National Homelessness Report. What Can We Learn?

The recent national report on homelessness had few bright spots considering the synchronized efforts and billions of dollars spent to get pe...

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30-Year Mortgage Rate Climbs to 6.93%, the Highest Since July

There was a moment in late September when mortgage rates, after a monthslong decline, appeared poised to drop low enough to bring would-be b...

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New Homelessness Data: How Does California Compare to the Rest of the Country?

California’s homeless population remains the biggest in the nation, but the crisis is growing more slowly here than in most of the res...

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US Justice Department Accuses Six Major Landlords of Scheming to Keep Rents High

DENVER — The U.S. Justice Department is suing several landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both...

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County Residents Reject Joining the City. Will It Be the Same in Southeast Fresno?

In 2020, the city and county of Fresno had to take special measures to allow a Fresno attorney to build nearly 500 homes on his family’...

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US Homelessness up 18% as Affordable Housing Remains Out of Reach for Many People

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as ...

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Tents of unhoused people in Ashland, Ore. on Dec. 7, 2024. The number of people experiencing homelessness in America topped 770,000, a one-year increase of more than 18% and the largest annual increase since data began in 2007, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development report released on Dec. 27. (Ruth Fremson/ The New York Times)..

Migrants and End of COVID Restrictions Fuel Jump in US Homelessness

WASHINGTON — Homelessness soared to the highest level on record this year, driven by forces that included a surge in migrants seeking asylum...

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Fresno’s Enviro Issues Won’t Get in Way of New Housing: IRS Building Owner

The owners of the massive IRS facility in southeast Fresno say they’re all in on new housing — and they’re fully prepared to mee...

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An all gender student restroom at Belvedere Middle School in East Los Angeles, Sept. 23, 2024. With sweeping executive orders, President Donald Trump tests local control of schools. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
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