EconomyCommentary
Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable to live. How do we reconcile these seemingly… Read More
SocietyNews
San Francisco wants federal taxpayers to help cover the more than $423 million it spent housing approximately 5,000 homeless people in hotels and other “non-congregate”… Read More
EconomyNews
Over the past three years, rent costs have risen dramatically for Americans as inflation and housing constraints push expenses up, according to data from Harvard’s… Read More
PoliticsNews
The federal government shouldn’t be permitted to use taxpayer funds to house illegal aliens on federal government land, under a bill passed by the House… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into… Read More
EconomyCommentary
All around the nation can be found the detritus of “Bidenomics,” especially in America’s broken housing market. Countless families are struggling just to find somewhere… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Rising interest rates and a shortage of lower-cost houses under the Biden administration continue to make homeownership unobtainable for many young families. Instead of working… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Federal Housing Finance Agency just announced it will hike the loan-level pricing adjustment fee on homebuyers with high credit scores and redistribute those funds to… Read More
EconomyNews
A new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that took effect Monday “will have the net effect of making it significantly more expensive for people with… Read More
EconomyNews
The Treasury Department has awarded a small fraction of the tens of billions of dollars Congress appropriated since January for rental assistance during the COVID-19… Read More
PoliticsNews
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a plan to push for the government to buy from black-owned businesses and for infrastructure targeted at minority-majority areas… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When we provide better opportunities, we get better outcomes. This maxim is proving true again in improving the futures of young Americans who “age out”… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In 2016, influential political leaders, activists, and media outlets in Los Angeles said they had a simple solution to homelessness: Build more housing. Echoing an… Read More
LawCommentary
Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 5 struck down the nationwide ban on evictions from rental… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to announce a powerful new tool to help the homeless and needy in… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
In what some consider one of the most far-reaching social-policy moves in the corporate world, the National Association of Realtors—called the nation’s largest trade organization—has… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The growth of public encampments, particularly in West Coast cities, has put homelessness back in the headlines in recent months. In some neighborhoods in Seattle,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Trump administration recently rescinded a fair housing rule adopted in the early months of the Obama administration. The so-called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule… Read More
SocietyCommentary
San Francisco is falling apart. The city is the wealthiest metropolitan area in the United States, but also has become a haven for tent encampments,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Government-mandated shutdowns and restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused unemployment to soar from near-record lows in January to levels unseen in our lifetimes… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The homelessness crisis in America’s West Coast cities is beginning to draw national attention. There are now an estimated 166,752 people on the streets in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The liberal media is once again taking off at breakneck pace to condemn President Donald Trump. The fake issue for their bogus outrage? Speaking the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Owning property means more than having your name on a deed. Lawyers and judges often refer to property ownership as a “bundle of rights,” because… Read More
EconomyCommentary
One of Congress’ main responses to the 2008 mortgage crisis was Title XIV of the Dodd-Frank Act, a section known as the Mortgage Reform and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Union leaders really love to brag about things they don’t do. You often can find them going on about how much they help and empower… Read More
EconomyNews
BRYAN, Texas—Born and raised in Houston, Melody Woodard moved an hour and a half away from her hometown to start anew here in Bryan, outside… Read More
EconomyNews
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2020 spending blueprint would cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget by 16 percent, but HUD Secretary Ben Carson… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Oregon just took a big step this week toward becoming the first state in the nation to impose statewide rent controls—a step in the wrong… Read More
Economy Commentary
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., recently outlined her agenda as the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee. Unfortunately, a continued misdiagnosis of the most… Read More
