America is facing an affordable housing crunch—and it was getting worse even before the pandemic struck and eviscerated jobs and incomes.
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Jun 3, 2020
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The teaching profession is already struggling with shortages and a lack of new candidates in a situation widely regarded as a crisis. Now, research warns that teachers are being priced out of housing near their schools, with ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2023
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Gone are the days when living at home in your 20s was seen as an embarrassing sign of arrested development. Today, 63% of single adults between the ages of 20 and 29 live with their parents, as do just over half of 25- to ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2019
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Homelessness is an increasing problem across the developed world, and existing policy responses are failing to make an impact. In Australia, for instance, homelessness has increased despite growing investment in (predominantly ...
Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2022
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Since the mid-1980s, unrestrained household spending has damaged American family finances—despite the fact that globalization and technological change have caused consumer prices to fall widely, says Queens College sociologist ...
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life and create other unintended consequences by sharply reducing commute times from smaller cities to large megacities, economists from UCLA and China's ...
Economics & Business
Mar 20, 2013
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America's cities are dividing themselves into two distinct groups, with college-educated workers increasingly clustering in desirable places that less-educated people cannot afford, according to new Stanford research.
Economics & Business
Jul 9, 2014
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Australia's six-month moratorium on evictions is due to end soon. Some states have extended the moratorium, but when it ends that's likely to force even more Australians into housing insecurity and outright homelessness. ...
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2020
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The availability of public transportation and the cost of individual transportation play major factors in just how affordable subsidized housing is in North Texas and across the country.
Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2016
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It's not exactly comforting that the United States is running up against its debt limit, as officials announced this week, nor is there immediate cause for concern for the average taxpayer, says University of Michigan economist ...
Economics & Business
Jan 20, 2023
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