Affordable Housing Crisis Archives

Report Reveals Homeowners Must Earn 81.8 Percent More Than Renters to Make Home Affordability Possible

13-J0000004-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Housing Market, Mortgage Payments, Rental Property

A recent Redfin report highlights the income gap between the average homeowner and renter, emphasizing that home affordability is out of reach for many Americans. The data found that homeowners needed to earn a little over $50,000 more than renters, which comes to a...

Pending Home Sales See Record Cancellation Rates as More People Turn to Rentals

13-J0000003-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Housing Market, Investing in Real Estate

According to a new Redfin analysis, there were 41,000 home-purchase agreement cancelations in January 2025, which was a rise of 13.4% from the previous year, bringing it to a level not seen since 2017. The housing market has been on shaky ground for some time now,...

Cutting Through Red Tape Bureaucracy to Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis

13-J0000002-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Housing Prices, Trump Administration

The United States has been dealing with an affordable housing crisis for far too long now, and those who have done their homework know the bureaucracy that took place over the past four years played a big part in taking down the housing market. Fast forward to 2025,...

Nightmare for CA Fire Victims Intensifies as Price Gouging Leads to Extreme Rent Hikes

13-J0000001-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Demand for Rental Properties, Rental Rates

Over 15,000 structures have been destroyed in the wake of the Southern California fires that are still uncontained, and with that comes entire neighborhoods reduced to ash and the displacement of families desperately seeking shelter. This surge in demand has led to...

Is Mass Immigration Shattering the Homeownership Dream for U.S. Citizens?

13-J00000010-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Illegal Immigrants, Investing in Real Estate, The Border Crises

During the recent Vice Presidential debate, Senator JD Vance brought to light an issue that many Americans may be unaware of, and that’s the fact that mass immigration is having a destructive impact on the housing sector. Specifically, that immigration is...

Harris’s Destructive Housing Plan: A Path to Rising Property Prices and Economic Instability

13-J0000008-1999 | Affordable Housing Crisis, Housing Market, Kamala Harris

Countless people are still holding onto the dream of becoming homeowners even though the events of recent years have made this goal seem downright impossible. The situation may become worse, though. Why? Because the American Dream of owning a home faces an even...