Affordable Housing – The United State Media

Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms?

Reporter USMay 4, 2025

Monte Anderson opened a broom closet in his kitchen and pointed to a door handle near a mop and a trash can. Somewhere on the other side lay one small solution to America’s affordable housing crisis. Mr. Anderson is a developer who rehabs commercial and residential buildings in and around Dallas, including the ranch-style house […]

Trump Administration to Use Federal Lands for Affordable Housing

Reporter USApril 29, 2025

Follow live updates on the Trump administration. During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump pledged to quickly bring down prices for American households, including making housing more affordable. “We’re going to open up tracts of federal land for housing construction,” Mr. Trump said in August. “We desperately need housing for people who can’t afford what’s […]

Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs

Reporter USApril 25, 2025

The Trump administration, which has made clear that it aims to slash government spending, is preparing to unveil a budget proposal as soon as next week that includes draconian cuts that would entirely eliminate some federal programs and fray the nation’s social safety net. The proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year would cut billions […]

Real Estate Fund Raises .5 Billion for Affordable Housing

Real Estate Fund Raises $2.5 Billion for Affordable Housing

Reporter USMarch 31, 2025

“The capital need is in the trillions, not billions,” Ms. Anadu said. “It’s no secret that there’s a big market opportunity,” said Bennett Goodman, the executive chairman and a co-founder of Hunter Point Capital, an investment firm that backed Vistria in 2022. “What’s hard is being able to put together a scalable platform where you […]

Can Barcelona Solve One of the Toughest Housing Crises in Europe?

Reporter USMarch 30, 2025

In 33 years, Marga Aguilar never missed a rent payment on her apartment in a Modernist-style building in the heart of Barcelona. The owner of the building had always treated her and the other tenants as if they were family, and kept rents reasonable. But when the owner died recently, Ms. Aguilar, 62, got a […]

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Regulator Puts 35 Workers on Leave

Reporter USMarch 21, 2025

The newly appointed head of one of the nation’s top housing regulators is moving quickly to reshape not only the agency but also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-controlled mortgage finance giants he oversees. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, now under the direction of William Pulte, placed 35 unionized employees on administrative leave […]

HUD Pauses Program for Energy-Efficient Upgrades in Affordable Housing

Reporter USMarch 13, 2025

Earlier this year, everything seemed set for a major renovation to make two Chicago apartment buildings for mostly lower-income elderly residents more energy efficient. An affordable-housing organization had secured a federal loan, a state loan and money from private investors. But the project, which was to start in a few weeks and include the installation […]