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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.

Social justice activists in California are promoting efforts in the state to end single family home neighborhoods by increasing density.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three housing bills last week after he beat back a recall effort, all aimed at rolling back local single-family zoning laws and encouraging new housing to be built, especially dense housing developments.

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law that increase housing density in single-family-home neighborhoods.

Spending to build new single-family homes rose sharply in July even though housing starts fell by more than expected, indicating that inflation is weighing on the housing market by pushing costs higher.

Wages in Canada are almost flat, house prices are spiking, and the wealth gap is growing while Canada’s established political parties invite an accelerating flood of economic migrants.

A ‘Great Reset’ of the British property market is currently underway, in which big banks are buying up houses across the country.

Sales of previously owned homes worth more than one million dollars were up nearly 60 percent annually in July, while sales of homes worth a quarter of that or less were down by around 30 percent, data from the National Association of Realtors showed Monday.

“Higher construction costs and supply shortages along with rising home prices pushed builder confidence to its lowest reading since July 2020,” the NAHB said.

Spending on the construction of single family homes is not keeping up with the rising costs of goods and services for residential building.

In a glowing Washington Post profile Chasten Buttigieg said he and Pete had to rent a small apartment because of high housing costs in D.C.

Another blow to family affordability in Biden’s America.

Sales of new homes came in much, much lower than expected for June, suggesting high prices are deterring buyers.

Many of the deported migrants who now getting special invites to re-enter the U.S. are too poor to afford housing or healthcare, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that the U.S. economy will have “several more months of rapid inflation.”

Overall construction spending fell as hotels, offices, and shopping malls tumbled further

Local communities in Florida are opposing President Joe Biden’s reconciliation infrastructure package, which attempts to “destroy” the suburbs by replacing local zoning laws with federal laws, allowing high-rise, low-income housing next to a single family homes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will use $5.2 billion of federal coronavirus stimulus aid to bail out California’s delinquent renters.

The Conservatives had been defying conventional logic, winning by-elections while in government — a rare achievement — but now they have been soundly defeated in a safe seat by a minor party, analysis suggests, on the small matter of the countryside being swallowed whole by development. Will the Tories’ big-money donors in the construction industry come to haunt them?

The college-trained progressives in Joe Biden’s White House are creating a bipartisan revolt by ordinary, middle-class Americans, says Joel Kotkin, a left-of-center California demographer who has long been critical of Silicon Valley’s political demands.

First time home buyers are getting squeezed out of the market.

New Zealand’s progressive prime minister is deflating the nation’s housing bubble curb and raising wages by sharply cutting immigration. 

Illegal migrants can get money to pay rent through Biden’s Housing and Urban Development $5 billion program to address homelessness.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors shared a post on Instagram lamenting “white supremacy” in the housing market, weeks after her multi-million housing portfolio was revealed.

President Joe Biden’s border policies have worsened nationwide humanitarian, housing, crime, and drug crises, says a letter released Tuesday by 20 GOP governors.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) has countered President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal, on which Biden said he is ready to negotiate.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that housing is “human infrastructure” and that for him, infrastructure includes having an educated workforce, which means “all of our kids should have the ability to

President Joe Biden has revealed a $2.25 trillion dollar infrastructure proposal to build two million homes and apartments while big money funds are quickly scooping up nearly all available single-family homes.

Compared with a year ago, the private sector spent 20.6 percent more on single-family construction in February.

A record low supply of homes took a big bite out of home sales in February.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering the entire U.S., reported an 11.2 percent annual gain in January, up from 10.4 percent in the previous month. That is the fastest pace for home prices since 2006, the peak of the housing bubble.

Economists had expected sales to cool to 875,000 from the hotter than expected 923,000 in January.

President Joe Biden has handed control over the nation’s immigration agencies to pro-migration zealots, and neither he nor his top aides may be able to contain the approaching worldwide wave of migrants, says Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Sales of new homes soared in January to a blistering seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 923,000, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Home prices rose 10.4 percent compared with a year earlier, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

Homebuilder confidence rose one point to a score of 84 in February, the National Association of Home Builders said Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Econoday had predicted the measure to remain flat with January’s 83.