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A report from the Urban Reform Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy shows that first-time home buyers who earn middle-class paychecks are being pushed out of U.S. cities across the United States because of high prices.

The coronavirus pandemic solidified the idea people don’t have to show up at an office to get work done. That fresh reality has led to a growing number of people relocating to more affordable cities across the country.

The notion that the March Consumer Price Index marked peak inflation was dealt a sharp blow by the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book on Wednesday.

Construction delays, high prices for materials, and rising interest rates took a bite out of single-family construction in March.

Canada’s federal government announced on Thursday plans to ban foreigners from purchasing homes in Canada for two years in an effort to lower surging home prices within the North American country, the BBC reported.

Corporations are buying up mobile home parks across the U.S. and owners of the manufactured housing are being hit with increased rent for lots and new property requirements.

Home prices are surging even while mortgage rates are climbing, creating an affordability crunch.

The usual relationship of completions to construction has been flipped on its head for nine months.

California law all but ends single family home zoning, but San Francisco leaders want even denser housing in single family home neighborhoods.

A California judge ruled on Thursday that revitalizing neighborhoods with nice housing and shops does not “gentrify” the community.

President Joe Biden’s deputies have delivered so many illegal migrants into New York that some of the female migrants cannot find work to pay their smuggling debts, according to claims by advocates for migrants.

The median price of a new home was $423,300 in January, a seven percent from $395,500 the previous month, reflecting the Bidenflation hitting construction materials.

The Holiday Inn at Dublin Airport, which is currently the fourth largest hotel in Ireland’s capital, has closed so it can host asylum seekers after only months of operation.

Home prices re-accelerated in December.

A rush of sales as rate hikes loom.

Citing zoning laws designed to “preserve blue-collar jobs in a market in which housing and office space have typically generated higher revenues,” a media report said Amazon is expanding its hold on real estate in California’s Bay Area.

Fannie Mae has settled a lawsuit brought by housing-rights activists accusing the agency of racial discrimination in foreclosure practices.

Fannie Mae’s survey found that the optimism of younger Americans declined in January.

Spending inched up while costs soared, indicating that real output in construction may be falling.

Just one percent of Americans view President Joe Biden’s economy as excellent, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll revealed Sunday.

Another sign that supply chain issues, inflation, and omicron are further disrupting the economy.

The California city of Santa Monica is offering housing to black families that owned homes in the path of Interstate 10 and other urban renewal projects built in the 1950s.

Global investors are buying up single family homes in American suburbs, pushing away first time home buyers and driving up prices.

A protest broke out in Salt Lake City last week after the city council voted for zoning changes that allow homes to be replaced by apartments.

High prices of materials were holding back construction. But now that inflation appears to be persistent, it no longer makes sense to hold off on new projects.

Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration are being offered free housing, food stamps, and are “entitled” to nearly $2,300 in payments, a new report details.

President Joe Biden’s pending Build Back Better (BBB) bill will shrink inflation by cutting Americans’ wages in a flood of roughly 9 million legalized and new workers, according to Facebook-funded FWD.us, a leader in the pro-amnesty movement.

California Disney employees relocate to Florida following the company’s decision to move 2000 workers to a new Sunshine State campus.

The University of North Dakota is putting new policies in place for students attending the school, including adding “gender identity” and “gender expression” as protected from discrimination under Title IX.

The Biden administration’s housing policies are failing to increase home affordability.

Biden promised to make housing more affordable. That’s not working out.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” National Association of Home Builders CEO Jerry Howard said the “supply chain is going to be a major problem if we don’t get it fixed very soon.” And “It’s a

California’s decision to end single-family suburban zoning is doubling property prices almost overnight, according to the New York Times. 

A conservative nonprofit is targeting former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) housing proposals in a lengthy television ad, warning the former governor will “destroy the American dream of a single-family home” should he be elected again.

Academics in California claim segregation still exists in the Bay Area and single family homes there have a legacy of racism.

GOP-led states that have fought pandemic mandates and pushed to reopen businesses, schools, and community activities are seeing big benefits in their housing markets.