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The Trump administration recently rescinded a fair housing rule adopted in the early months of the Obama administration.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
EconomyNews
Airbnb, which lists more 45,000 Florida properties on its vacation rentals website, has lobbied hard to remove its “home-sharing” offerings from hotel/motel regulations and unshackle… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Dr. Ben Carson is the 17th secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. After a successful career in medicine and his own… Read More
EconomyNews
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says he can work on key urban issues with some Democrats in the new House majority that takes… Read More
EconomyNews
Senate Democrats have stalled nominees to fill key posts in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, even while complaining about the agency’s performance. An… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The California tech boom should have been the engine for widely shared prosperity and renewal. Instead, contrary to the state’s uber-progressive reputation, California has the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The San Francisco Bay Area is a booming locale, and certainly one of the most naturally beautiful. It should be a fantastically desirable place to… Read More
LawCommentary
“You’re fired.” President Donald Trump will soon be able to use his famous catch phrase against the head of a troubled federal agency, the Federal… Read More
EconomyNews
A liberal advocacy group that has received more than $16 million in federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is now suing… Read More
SocietyFeature
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke to The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood about his policy goals at HUD, what it’s like to serve… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In January 2017, the Obama administration decided to reduce the mortgage insurance premiums charged by the Federal Housing Administration. Fortunately, after taking office later that… Read More
