EconomyCommentary
‘Green’ Housing Mandates Push Americans Further Into the Red
Home prices across the nation are back up near a record high. That makes this a particularly bad time for the Biden administration to have rolled… Read More
Economy Commentary
Yikes! Perilous Economy for First-Time Homebuyers
Buying a home is a cornerstone of the American dream, a dream that is further out of reach today for many Americans. According to the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis
When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today,… Read More
SocietyNews
After Feds Showered Blue State With Tax Dollars to Fix Homelessness, Here’s the Result
A plethora of federal agencies have spent well over $200 million attempting to alleviate homelessness in Washington state over the past 17 years, only for… Read More
EconomyNews
Would-Be Homeowners Need 80% More Income to Buy Than 4 Years Ago, Study Finds
The housing market is not immune from inflationary woes as buyers’ purchasing power has significantly diminished in four years. Homebuyers in 2024 need 80% more… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Understated by Feds, Through-the-Roof Housing Inflation Is Crushing Would-Be Homeowners
Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable to live. How do we reconcile these seemingly… Read More
SocietyNews
San Francisco Spent Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars to House Homeless During Pandemic
San Francisco wants federal taxpayers to help cover the more than $423 million it spent housing approximately 5,000 homeless people in hotels and other “non-congregate”… Read More
EconomyNews
Americans Getting Nailed by Through-the-Roof Rents
Over the past three years, rent costs have risen dramatically for Americans as inflation and housing constraints push expenses up, according to data from Harvard’s… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Passes Bill Barring Funding to House Illegal Aliens on Federal Land
The federal government shouldn’t be permitted to use taxpayer funds to house illegal aliens on federal government land, under a bill passed by the House… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden Is Killing the American Dream of Homeownership
In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Bidenomics Wrecked America’s Housing Market
All around the nation can be found the detritus of “Bidenomics,” especially in America’s broken housing market. Countless families are struggling just to find somewhere… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s Woke Housing Plan for All of Us
Rising interest rates and a shortage of lower-cost houses under the Biden administration continue to make homeownership unobtainable for many young families. Instead of working… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Biden’s Plan to Penalize Responsible Homebuyers Could Ravage Retirement Savings by $31,000
The Federal Housing Finance Agency just announced it will hike the loan-level pricing adjustment fee on homebuyers with high credit scores and redistribute those funds to… Read More
EconomyNews
‘Disaster’: State Financial Officers Slam Biden Admin’s ‘Upside Down’ Mortgage Policy
A new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that took effect Monday “will have the net effect of making it significantly more expensive for people with… Read More
EconomyNews
Within Days of More Evictions, Only Fraction of Federal Rent Assistance Awarded
The Treasury Department has awarded a small fraction of the tens of billions of dollars Congress appropriated since January for rental assistance during the COVID-19… Read More
PoliticsNews
Biden Calls for Billions to Close Racial Wealth Gap, Hits 2 Senate Democrats for Stymieing His Agenda
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a plan to push for the government to buy from black-owned businesses and for infrastructure targeted at minority-majority areas… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Putting Young Americans on Path From Foster Care to Self-Sufficiency
When we provide better opportunities, we get better outcomes. This maxim is proving true again in improving the futures of young Americans who “age out”… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Does ‘Housing First’ Help Homeless? Here’s What Happened in Los Angeles
In 2016, influential political leaders, activists, and media outlets in Los Angeles said they had a simple solution to homelessness: Build more housing. Echoing an… Read More
LawCommentary
Judge Rightly Finds COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Unlawful, Then Stays Ruling Anyway
Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 5 struck down the nationwide ban on evictions from rental… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Exclusive Interview: Ben Carson on How to Help Homeless in Your Community
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to announce a powerful new tool to help the homeless and needy in… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Some Realtors Fear Association’s ‘Hate Speech’ Ban Is Built on a Slippery Slope
In what some consider one of the most far-reaching social-policy moves in the corporate world, the National Association of Realtors—called the nation’s largest trade organization—has… Read More
EconomyCommentary
‘Housing First’ Policy Has Failed the Homeless
The growth of public encampments, particularly in West Coast cities, has put homelessness back in the headlines in recent months. In some neighborhoods in Seattle,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Left-Wing War on America’s Suburbs
The Trump administration recently rescinded a fair housing rule adopted in the early months of the Obama administration. The so-called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How San Francisco’s Progressive Policies Made the Homelessness Crisis Worse
San Francisco is falling apart. The city is the wealthiest metropolitan area in the United States, but also has become a haven for tent encampments,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why COVID-19 Eviction Moratoriums Are Unnecessary, Unfair, and Economically Harmful
Government-mandated shutdowns and restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused unemployment to soar from near-record lows in January to levels unseen in our lifetimes… Read More
EconomyCommentary
What’s Really Driving the Homelessness Crisis
The homelessness crisis in America’s West Coast cities is beginning to draw national attention. There are now an estimated 166,752 people on the streets in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The President Is Right: We Must Clean Up America’s Cities
The liberal media is once again taking off at breakneck pace to condemn President Donald Trump. The fake issue for their bogus outrage? Speaking the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New York City’s Rent Control Laws Erase Property Rights and Worsen Housing Supply
Owning property means more than having your name on a deed. Lawyers and judges often refer to property ownership as a “bundle of rights,” because… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why the Housing Lobby’s Average Prime Offer Rate Solution is Deeply Flawed
One of Congress’ main responses to the 2008 mortgage crisis was Title XIV of the Dodd-Frank Act, a section known as the Mortgage Reform and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Carson Hounded by Open Borders Liberals for Putting Americans First
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is… Read More
