Everyone wants a massive housing construction boom — it was even a feature of the last presidential election, from both sides. But what we have had instead is the Walking Dead on housing permits for ...

In the years since the Great Recession, apartment construction in the United States has boomed. And more of these new homes have been smaller units, with fewer bedrooms, including studio apartments. A ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. President Joe Biden announced measures to mitigate high housing costs including investing hundreds of millions of ...

Today’s housing starts report clearly shows that to build more homes, we will need lower mortgage rates. Without lower rates, housing permits — which are already at COVID-19 recession levels — are at ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Owners planning new construction projects today are ...

Young adults need lower housing prices, not longer mortgages. The median age of first-time home buyers is now 40, according to a recent report from the National Association of Realtors. Among all ...

D.C.’s leading Democratic candidates for mayor are vowing to build thousands of new housing units in a bid to increase supply and bring down high costs squeezing renters. The only problem: Their ...

This shift in both policy and opinion represents perhaps the greatest success of the “criminal-justice reform” movement, which maintains that incarceration is expensive, inhumane, and either doesn’t ...

I was born and raised in Kansas, but in 1997, I followed the road to Seattle. Today, I proudly operate a home construction and remodeling business and am reminded daily of the need for a place to call ...