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As the affordable housing crisis grows across the country, certain community groups are stepping up to help people in their times of need. To read more click here.

The report argues that the stress felt in the market today could find reasonable relief in an expansion of credit available to prospective homebuyers. To read more click here.

More than 400 letters have been sent to Congress by Opportunity Starts at Home advocates in support of the “Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act” (S.3231). To read more [...]

Driven by high costs in search of something practical, homebuyers are fleeing metro areas and multiple states and targeting the South as well as the middle of the country for their next home. To [...]

According to Zillow, it hasn’t taken this long for homebuyers to save for a down payment since the height of the housing crisis in 2008. To read more click here. To read more about the Vista [...]

As experience has shown, it’s important for borrowers – particularly first-time homebuyers – to speak face-to-face with an expert capable of understanding their unique financial needs. To read [...]

Now that a decade has passed, industry insiders look back at where we were, what we learned and where we go from here to ensure that the trauma of the housing boom-and-bust and the Great [...]

Selena Ortiz, assistant professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, hopes insights recently published in Population Health such as how conservatives are more responsive to themes [...]

At least five pilot programs across the United States—including two in Cascadia—are testing the notion that backyard cottages, also called detached accessory dwelling units (DADUs), might be a [...]

The first mistake mentioned is not saving 10% for a down payment, but with SALT’s Vista Montana Homeowners’ Program, the buyer pays only a minimum of 1% of the home price as a down [...]