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Time: Ben Carson’s New Public Housing Proposal Would Make Rent More Expensive for Millions of Families
Millions of families living in federally subsidized public housing would pay more for rent under a proposal unveiled Wednesday by…
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The Real Deal: LA’s home prices are soaring and homes are flying off the market
The news isn’t good for Los Angeles home hunters. New data shows that prices keep going up and homes keep…
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Washington Post: HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday proposed raising the amount that low-income families are expected to pay for rent…
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Slate: Redlining Has Taken a Huge Toll on Property Values. But Not Everywhere.
More than 80 years ago, the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation released its “Residential Security” maps, guides of American cities…
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San Francisco Business Times: Mayor Farrell picks up the housing baton, 650 Cal fills up, homes to replace KFC, and more in this week’s real estate digest
S.F. Mayor vows to speed up housing construction San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell plans to carry on his predecessor’s push to make…
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CityLab: The Case for Preserving Mobile Homes
Today, about 40,000 mobile home parks exist across the United States. They were critical to filling housing shortages during World…
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NBC Los Angeles: Group Seeks to Repeal California’s Restrictions on Rent Control
The debate over how to get relief from skyrocketing rents in California is likely to go before the voters in…
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Santa Cruz Sentinel: Santa Cruz rent control campaign on track to make ballot, organizers say
Costanza Rampini is collecting signatures to put the Santa Cruz rent control measure on the fall ballot. The 32-year-old adjunct…
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Mother Jones: Farmworkers Are Living 20 to a House in California’s Bountiful Salinas Valley
If you’re making a salad to go along with your dinner tonight, you should probably thank the farmworkers in California’s…
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Vox: There’s no good alternative to building more homes in expensive cities
The sweeping land use reform bill introduced recently by California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a San Francisco Democrat, died in…