Feb
01
By Morgan Brennan The Lone Star state has gotten a lot of good press lately for coming through the economic downturn relatively unscathed. Since 2008, nearly 40% of all of the nation's new jobs since have been created there. Thanks to that strong economy, housing in Texas' biggest cities, including Houston, San Antonio and Austin, …
Jan
27
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Just 302,000 new homes were sold in 2011, 6.2% below 2010 and the lowest number of annual sales since the government started tracking home sales in 1963. In December, sales of single-family homes fell 2.2% month-over-month to an annual rate of 307,000, according to estimates released by the Census Bureau and …
Jan
24
by Sasha von OldershausenJan 2012 Homelessness is at a record-breaking high in New York City, and affordable housing remains scarce. In the case of one housing development project in Brooklyn, political and religious rivalries only add to the problem. On Jan. 4, 2011, Justice Emily Goodman issued a preliminary injunction barring New York City from …