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The New York Times

Real Estate's Constant Conflict

Do I rent or do I buy? It’s an eternal question, one that can’t be solved with economics alone.

CityLab

Millennials Are More Likely to Buy Their First Homes in Cities

If there’s a single question that has gnawed at urban economists and planners over the past few years, it’s this: Will Millennials’ well-known love of cities fade once they have kids and need space for double strollers and play kitchens, or is it a more lasting shift in how Americans will decide where to live?

Nieman Reports

Investigating the Housing Crisis

How newsrooms are tackling the complex issues that contribute to and result from the growing housing affordability problem

Bloomberg

No Housing Alarm Bells (Yet) for Home Depot

There has been a steady trickle of gloomy headlines lately about the health of the housing market. But you wouldn’t know it looking at Home Depot Inc.’s latest results...

Pew Stateline

In Shift, States Step in on Affordable Housing

As an affordable housing crisis continues to escalate in big cities and small towns alike, states are scrambling to find ways to combat it. This year, there’s been a flurry of state legislation to tackle the problem — with radically different approaches that reflect the highly partisan national divide.

The New York Times

The New American Dream Home Is One You Never Have To Leave

In the southwest corner of Elk Grove, Calif., about 15 miles outside of Sacramento, there’s a shell of a shopping center that was partially built during the peak of the real estate bubble, then abandoned when the market crashed. Locals have taken to calling it the Ghost Mall. Look in one direction from the Ghost Mall and you’ll see farmland. Turn the other way and you’ll see what looks like a brand-new town being built from scratch.

The New York Times

California Tenants Take Rent Control to the Ballot Box

From pulpits across Los Angeles, Pastor Kelvin Sauls has spent the past few months delivering sermons on the spiritual benefits of fasting. The food in the sermon is rent, and landlords need less of it. “My role is to bring a moral perspective to what we are dealing with around the housing crisis,” Pastor Sauls explained.

Slate

What Makes Rent "Affordable"?

It’s no surprise that a California ballot measure to restore rent-control power to cities has the most support in Los Angeles. The city has the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population and strongest anti-gentrification movement, and it’s often ranked the least affordable metro area in the United States.